The evolution of an urban self-consciousness in London in the early
nineteenth century played a fundamental role in the shaping of the
city. In this volume Dana Arnold explores the responses to the city
among the urban bourgeoisie and their influence on the experience
and development of London. Each of the chapters re-presents the
metropolis through a thematic consideration of the urban
infrastructure and architecture including public open spaces, new
roads and bridges, public monuments, and buildings for show
including museums, galleries and townhouses. These discrete 'walks'
around London cohere into a kaleidoscopic view of the metropolis as
a continually evolving entity. The nature and perception of urban
experience and social life are mapped against this changing image
of London revealing at once the modernity of the metropolis and the
importance of the past - especially antiquity - to the construction
of this transient present. Evidence of attitudes towards the
metropolis is drawn from a range of contemporary visual and written
sources including commentaries, guidebooks, literature and
parliamentary reports and enquiries. The study of sensory responses
to the city allows the exploration of the dynamic between city and
society and a broader cultural understanding of urban form. London
is re-presented as a matrix of key architectural, social and
cultural themes and as the emblematic expression of different kinds
of identities relating to gender,class and nationhood.
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