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“London changes so constantly that we barely notice it, but many famous neighbourhoods and landmarks in London have vanished and been forgotten. Conversely, in 1957, the River Thames was declared biologically dead yet today it teems with over 125 species of fish. Tom Bolton, (The Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods), Caitlin Davies, whose latest book Downstream is a celebration of swimming the Thames and Travis Elborough, (London Bridge in America and The Bus We Loved) consider the shifting pieces of the capital.”

Tickets £4 more info here:

https://billetto.co.uk/london-lost-found

A have a piece on Alison Lurie’s novel The Nowhere City, a neglected comic masterpiece set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, in the Summer issue of Slightly Foxed out on 1 June 2015.

https://foxedquarterly.com/may-news-from-slightly-foxed/

‘Size matters in city parks. Artfully contrived naturalesque spaces, most are tailored to fit in set urban situations, with their specific limits often clearly demarcated by railings, fences and gates. Such barriers are seemingly there to protect the park from the city. Or vice versa, with the metropolis quite possibly fearing contamination by too much exposure to plants and grass, much like a small child forever nudging uneaten vegetables to the edge of their dinner plate…’

Read on, or not as the case may be:

http://chisenhale.org.uk/offsite/offsite_event.php?id=36