Description: This book examines moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers different ways in which the city's image has been formulated and presented. The complexity of the different identities of London is revealed in the tensions and interactions between manifestations of civic and national pride, the relationship between private and governmental institutions, and issues of urban planning. The essays collected here present a range of material from specific questions of architectural style to the relationship between the City of London and London as a metropolis. Different methods of constructing urban identities are explored, including representations of London in the visual arts, the self-conscious work of architects and planners, and approaches adopted by historians to give the city different meanings and identities.

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