London

The noise of high heels dancing on the wooden floorboards echoes through the cold, empty, deserted rooms of the compact London flat, that she had called home for the last few years.Eyes closed, she drinks in the memories, smells and sounds. Moving from room to room, revisiting happy times and events, absorbing them to her mind’s eye for the long lonely nights that she thinks lay ahead. Suddenly Sarah Jane stops and stands like a statue frozen in time. Here in a state of numbness, within the…

of the 1980s, but in 1983 finally started to rise for the first time in a whole century. Money becomes to flow in the city, making London one of the most powerful cities, as we see it today. In the 1990s “the capital began to think of itself as truly global. It grew relaxed with its multicultural population and proud of its creative buzz” (20th Century London). London was not the same as the rest of England. The capital was much more multicultural and the flow of younger part of the population…

The best example was the Kelo v. City of New London case. The city promoting the new plans for New London was benefit the city economically because it would bring “coordinate a variety of commercial, residential, and recreational land uses, with the hope that they will form a whole greater than the sum of its parts.” Although…

to Auckland is London because…

Jack the Ripper. 2014. “The ‘Dear Boss’ Letter.” In Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, edited by John A. Wagner, 244-245. Santa Barbara: Greenwood: An Imprint of ABC-CLIO. This source is extremely useful because the Jack the Ripper murders are one of the most infamous crimes of the whole era, and this supposedly was the first letter that he sent to the newspapers about his murders. This letter is extremely useful in the paper because it provides an example…

Within this essay, I will discuss the conflict between Museum of London Docklands’s efforts to conserve the past and Canary Wharf’s efforts to progress economically. I will use supplementary sources from various authors to aid in the discussion. I conclude that it is precisely the conflict between the two areas, one past oriented, the other present and future oriented, that helps constitute what kind of ‘place’ the London Docklands is. The concept of how to preserve the past while still…

Tucked away in the suburbs of the hectic, bustling city of London lies a hotel that truly surprised me in all of the right ways. Even before arriving at the Best Western Palm Hotel I have to say I was skeptical. When booking the location for the first half of my European vacation, I never imagined that a Best Western would even be an option. While the brand is well known and even respected as a budget hotel dotted all over this country, I wasn’t even aware that they had roots overseas. I was…

2012) In nineteenth century, England has faced an enormous and rapid growth of urban population. In-migrants, people from rural areas of England and Wales, were moving to larger, industrial cities, such as London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester. In one century, the population of London, for example, increased from 1,117,000 to 6,586,000 while city of Liverpool has expanded from 82,000 to 685,000 citizens (Williams, 2004). It is argued that this rapid growth of urban population has lead to…

As defined by Thorns, a global city is a city that serves as an international center for the flow of capital, laborers, access to information and commodities (Thorns, 2002). London, the capital of England, is one of the forefront examples of a successful global, post-industrial city. As an international trading hub, London is branded as a city rich in history, diversity, creative ideas, and strongly respected culture (World Cities Culture Forum, 2010). Transitioning from the Industrial…

Arguably the most dynamic city on earth, London has for centuries, in the areas of finance, literature, politics, art and theater, been the center of the world. As the capital of the United Kingdom, it ruled at its peak about a quarter of the world that may be one of the many reasons London still is a beloved setting for a novel or a short story. Distinguished writers such as Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf all have an allurement of this city. As…