TPPM (9): London

[Tim Strzechowski]

[...] "The urban mazework of London, leading into ambiguities and indeed evils, was here all rectified, orthogonal. (Dickens, visiting in 1842, remarked, "After walking about in it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street.")" [...]

http://www.britainexpress.com/London/history-of-london.htm

http://www.britainexpress.com/London/victorian-london.htm

http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol/


And as long as we're on the subject, let me put out some props to my homie, Chuckie D:

http://dickens.stanford.edu/

Yo. Yo.
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