Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City by Martin Kratz,Tom Chivers PDF

By Martin Kratz,Tom Chivers

ISBN-10: 1908058188

ISBN-13: 9781908058188

An invisible mountain rises above the streets of London. At over 1,400 metres it really is Britain's optimum height. This inventive ebook is an account of the ascent of Mount London by means of writers, poets and concrete cartographers, every one scaling a smaller city mountain - from Crystal Palace to Parliament Hill. Mount London is a visionary checklist of the vertical urban.

Contributors: Matt D. Brown, Sarah Butler, Tom Chivers, Liz Cookman, David Cooper, Tim Cresswell, Alan Cunningham, Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Katy Evans-Bush, SJ Fowler, Bradley L. Garrett, Edmund Hardy, Justin Hopper, Martin Kratz, Amber Massie-Blomfield, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Helen Mort, Mary Paterson, Gareth E. Rees, Gemma Seltzer, Chrissy Williams, Tamar Yoseloff.

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