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Review:Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis, by Terry Farrell. Wiley, 288 pp, £39.99
This ambitious portrait of London has the best aspirations, but does not seem to know if it is trying to be a chatty historical run-through of some of the city’s highlights, or to provide a more focused, diagrammatic approach to understanding the capital.