2019 Journal | Contents

The 2019 edition of the Journal of the London Society is about to go to press and so should be with members in the next couple of weeks. It’s a bigger than usual edition – 104 pages – with features, opinion and case studies reflecting this year’s Society themes.

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FEATURES

• Industrial Revolution Exploring the potential of ‘ flatted factories’
• Dogs’ Life – 1980s Docklands captured by photographer Mike Seaborne
• Albertopolis: London’s original innovation district Sarah Yates on the legacy of the 1851 Great Exhibition
• The Art of the Mapper London reimagined by illustrator Adam Dant

CASE STUDIES

• When the music stops. Will the soul of Tin Pan Alley be lost to Crossrail? asks Peter Watts
• Floral Tribute Jessica Cargill Thompson hears how plants are reviving memories of an East London street
• The Successful High Street – Why thriving Peckham shows we need to adjust our values
• Ahead of the game. The art project redefining a high-street staple

OPINION

• Organically does it. John Myers encourages residents to take back control
• Context message. History provides the roots for great places, says Emily Gee
• Beyond Bricks and Mortar Heather Jermy on preserving the essence of place
• Saviours of the City Anne Thomas on the heritage guardians of the City of London
• Constructing Places, Building Trust Jessica Cargill Thomson on the need to engage with the Old Kent Road before redeveloping it

REGULARS

• A London Notebook: Blackwall & the Isle of Dogs
• London Online Members’ picks of the best websites
• From the Archives. What was the Society up to 50 and 100 years ago?
• Book Reviews