Oversize Paperback. Condition: Fine. Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, appears new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 128 pages of fine line b&w architectural drawings with text. " The introduction traces the way in which London's fabric has been formed -- the expansion of the 17th and 18th centuries that produced the squares and terraces of Mayfair and Bloomsbury, and the self-confident contribution of the 19th , with its banks, railway stations and grandiose commercial buildings. All these periods, different as they were, respected the human scale, and it is this which the 20th century is ignoring. " Six guided walks illustrate this phenomena.