Contents
PART ONE THE UNDEMOLISHED WORLD OF DALSTON LANE
1. Street-Corner Vision
2. Around the World in three Hundred Yards
3. All Cats are Grey by Night
4. Down in the Dirt
5. Dalston Lane Becomes a Downland Track
PART TWO BRIDESHEAD AND THE TOWER BLOCKS
6. Brideshead Relocated
7. Abysmal Heights
8. Rodinsky’s Place
9. An Unexpected Reprieve
PART THREE SCENES FROM THE PRIVATIZED CITY
10. The London Bus Queue Falls Apart
11. The Vandalized Telephone Box
12. The Man with a Metal Detector
13. Drinking Water in a Toxic State (only in the Flamingo edition)
PART FOUR TALES OF CONVERSION
14. The Park that Lost its Name
15. Remembering London’s War
16. The Bow Quarter: Six Hundred and Seventy Luxury Flats in an Old Victorian
Hell- House
PART FIVE VISIONS OF THE NEW DAWN
17. Excellence: From Fifth Avenue to Hackney Town Hall
18. Refounding the City with Prince Charles
Notes
Index