By Colin Manton
Through an exciting collection of Victorian engravings and modern photos, this booklet compares the ‘world urban’ that was once so imaginatively and with a bit of luck constructed by way of the Victorians with today’s dynamic, multicultural urban of trade and tradition, which so usually hits the headlines.
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