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"These two [volumes] cover a chunk of the historic West End in unrivalled detail following years of rigorous research." — Robert Bevan, Evening Standard
"Superbly researched, well written and comprehensively illustrated" — John Martin Robinson, Country Life
"the authors have […] deepened our understanding of what urbanity is, and how it can be preserved and enhanced." — Geoffrey Tyack, The Georgian
"two splendid volumes" — Mark Girouard, The Victorian
"the scholarly traditions of the Survey are more than maintained and the attractiveness of the product, both in words and pictures, seems ever to get brighter." — Frank Kelsall, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
“One cannot do justice in a review to the depth and diversity of these volumes, to their enhancement of understanding of a complex area of London.” – Bridget Cherry, London Topographical Society Newsletter
“At a time when the bookshelves groan with fresh publications on the capital, a single chapter of the Survey is worth a whole volume of psychogeographical lucubrations.” —Simon Bradley, The Burlington Magazine
"These two [volumes] cover a chunk of the historic West End in unrivalled detail following years of rigorous research." — Robert Bevan, Evening Standard
"Superbly researched, well written and comprehensively illustrated" — John Martin Robinson, Country Life
"the authors have […] deepened our understanding of what urbanity is, and how it can be preserved and enhanced." — Geoffrey Tyack, The Georgian
"two splendid volumes" — Mark Girouard, The Victorian
"the scholarly traditions of the Survey are more than maintained and the attractiveness of the product, both in words and pictures, seems ever to get brighter." — Frank Kelsall, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society
“One cannot do justice in a review to the depth and diversity of these volumes, to their enhancement of understanding of a complex area of London.” – Bridget Cherry, London Topographical Society Newsletter
“At a time when the bookshelves groan with fresh publications on the capital, a single chapter of the Survey is worth a whole volume of psychogeographical lucubrations.” —Simon Bradley, The Burlington Magazine
Philip Temple and Colin Thom are research associates at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Andrew Saint is the general editor of The Survey of London and the author of Richard Norman Shaw.