Remapping London.

ENGLAND; LONDON (England)

This article presents various historical and literary perspectives about London, England, its geographical areas and landmarks, main commercial districts, and some of the various micro-environments that increasingly characterized the rapidly increasing city. The author, in his afterword, particularly gives focus on the idea of landmarks and buildings as sites of multiple temporal and topographic meanings that contributed to the development of the city, prior to the late seventeenth century, as a cosmopolitan metropolis. He argues for a view of early modern London as a true metropolis. Furthermore, he states that the city, like any city, is a palimpsest, yet, it is more than just an archaeological surface to be scraped in hope of finding the past.