ABSTRACT
A lesson of London is that urban form is highly dependent on social structure. An Italian piazza or a French place royale would be out of place in London. Not only would they not be generated, but also the housing needed to form them would not be used and the authority needed to make such grand moves would be difficult to secure. As such, London internal squares were individual cells without formal interstitial fabric. The result is that English economic and political power manifests its social and political structure – a structure that extended to English colonial towns such as Savannah, Philadelphia and New Haven (Olsen 1964: 4-7).
