ABSTRACT
Georgian London in which this historian imagines that he takes us high above the Thames valley, looking down upon the metropolis as an historical unfolding from twin historic foci: the distinct patterning of an artefactual growth that engulfs the landscape described as “the product of a collective, unconscious will”. Suddenly, from this ‘air view’ within an accelerated and historically characterised time-frame, one apprehends the basis
of London’s contemporary architectural geography. There is pattern. It has coherence. And even as a generalisation, it makes sense.
