It is argued by Paul Balchin that, over the whole period covered by this book, kings, governments, bankers, merchants and industrialists invested heavily in developing London to create a sense of majesty, awe, economic power and national pride; and aristocratic dynasties and the landed gentry - often from elsewhere in England - commissioned sumptuous properties in the capital as a means of expressing their wealth and position in society; while the church (often with royal assistance) built imposing edifices to extend their influence. Thus as an outcome of numerous motives, the more notable buildings and public places of London and their spatial dispersal helped determine the shape and areal extent of the metropolis enabling it to become the world's largest city by the end of the nineteenth century and the capital of an empire without equal...
Dr Paul Balchin is former Reader in Urban Economics at the University of Greenwich. Published widely, he is author and co-author of several books on different aspects of the built environment, most recently Urban Development in Renaissance Italy (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2008).
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