London’s economy is both very specialised - in highly productive, export-oriented service sectors such as finance and insurance and advanced professional services – but also big enough to accommodate large numbers of jobs in most of the key employment sectors. Exports from the specialised sectors are a key driver of London’s trade surplus with the rest of the world. At the same time, Lond…
No city in the world is better covered by literature – fictional and non-fictional – than London. From Pepys, via Dickens, to Ackroyd, London has benefited from a series of talented historians, novelists and commentators who have provided detailed accounts of the city’s condition. In the past few years a new tranche of books has been published on the contemporary character of the…
London is by turns cutting edge and ancient, refined and gritty, and the streets of this city of contrasts are lined with idiosyncratic and beautiful architechture. This book describes over 50 key structures in authoritive and compelling style. The accompanying illustrations press out of the page, transforming your book into a cityspace to treasure and display.