Seeing London as a metaphorical body is one way in which we can analyse change over time in the city. Cultural geographers can use a body as a metaphor in a number of ways. Seeing London as a body gives us a way in which to see all of it’s processes and parts as connected,
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The Ripper: Why Jack Walks in the Same London Today
Allow me to tell you a story. A story of poverty and crime, racism and xenophobia. Of social exclusion, destitution and prostitution. Of commercialization, sensationalism and capitalism. But above all this is a story of London, a city so modern and developed, and so surely evolved from its darker past of the Victorian era. Yet
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
In what ways does Cosgrove and Jackson’s (1987) re-theorised cultural geography allow us to view the meanings attached to ‘deathscapes’, such as Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, as being inherently drawn from past power relations in their creation and maintenance? Too often we allow our journeys to take place without engaging with the ways that past
London Race Riots
During the post WW2 period Britain experienced significant levels of immigration, especially from the Caribbean (Peach, 1967). For an array of reasons, many Caribbean and African migrants gravitated to London in their search for permanent settlement. During the 1950s, areas such as Notting Hill and Brixton soon became centres of black settlement (Matera, 2015). The
The Metropolitan Police Service
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was founded in 1829 by the Home Secretary, Robert Peel, which saw little over 3000 men employed to patrol and watch the Metropolitan Police District (Smiles, 1870). Today, in its 187th year, the MPS employs almost 32,000 officers and 15,000 other staff (Metropolitan Police Service, 2015). This mass expansion and