City of London

The representation of the London of ‘light’ and the London of ‘darkness’ has evolved throughout the history of literature; this change can be explored and observed when comparing the topics of the country and the city within popular literary works of art. Within Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist the countryside is viewed as the London of ‘light’ while the city is viewed as the London of ‘darkness’. These themes are brought out by the realism Dickens uses in relation to the period in which his novel…

all contain a preponderance of further readings on the subject. The kind of information which I focused on was facts about the intentions of the LDDC and then reports on what they ended up producing. Also, I used reports of other gentrified areas of London so I can get a better understanding of how those areas ended up. I can then use data collected from other sources to compare those areas to the Docklands itself. The discussion of other areas will be brief as to not detract from the focus of…

unparalleled growth and optimism for the British Empire. (BBC.co.uk) Supplies and workforce taken from groups worldwide had made England grow, and the time of serious freedom struggles placed in the distant future. Business succeeded, technology grew, and London developed at a fast rate and contributing to crime. While the great divide between rich and poor and the financial and human worry…

During the mid 1800s, London had two million people packed into 30 miles of city creating many problems with sanitation. The bad sanitation led to a very dirty city with diseases flourishing, along with a sewer system that was leaking into the drinking wells. John Snow is a physician/anesthesiologist who first makes the link between Cholera and drinking water after studying previous cases. Snow founds the epidemiology center for the city but struggles with medical technology not being very…

What makes people want to go to the city of London? Many people would answer that there is a lot of historical places to see. In William Blake’s poem, “London”, readers are brought on a trip back in time to a part of the city’s history that tourist now find go to see. This time traveling experience of the poem certainly isn’t pleasant because the whole text is focused around a negative era in this England city. Throughout the four stanzas and sixteen lines readers feel different emotions such as…

in October 1642. The king’s army marched into London, only to be met by the Earl of Essex’s army. Neither side was well trained, and both sides had thousands of casualties. Battles continued until November when forces in and around London met the king’s army. To avoid further casualties, the king returned to Oxford. “The first major battle followed in mid-October… The opposing armies, raw and ill-trained, suffered heavy casualties… The threat to London persisted until November, when only the…

the Cholera outbreak in London. The Cholera outbreak started in 1854 when a little girl was infected and her contents contaminated a water pump on Broad Street. Soon, London was filled with infected residents and no one could figure out what caused it. Thankfully, John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and other characters were able to understand and piece together how the Cholera outbreak started. John Snow played a big role in understanding what caused the Cholera outbreak in London. John Snow as a…

stink” occurred in London. Around this time, sewage was dumped in the Thames and stunk up the city streets. The human waste was affecting the Thames, which was a river that ran through London. The people of London knew that the human waste was polluting the water since the 17th century, but did nothing about it for two centuries. A man named Joseph Bazalgette finally fixed the sewer problem in 1866 by designing a sewer system. The system involved getting fresh water to the city and…

Kelo vs City of New London Kelo v. City of New London case involved the of abuse eminent domain by transferring land from one private owner to another (private owner) in the name of economic development. The case was judged by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court decided that private redevelopment plans can be considered "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment as they benefited the general community because of economic growth qualified as a permissible. The…

Urban london in the 1800's was a place to experiment because london was known for place with somber individuals. Like Jekyll and Hyde in the book “ Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Stevenson. Strange Case was written with the time of the Victorian Period in the 1800’s. Jekyll resided in the Soho district of London, and Hyde transformation happened in Regents Park. The city of London in this story is described as a foggy, dark place with very little light. Stevenson’s…