Introduction - Joe Kerr ETHNICITY / IDENTITY London and Language - Katie Wales The Metropolitan Playground: London's Children - Jenny Bavidge and Andrew Gibson Gay London - Mark W. Turner Wild Women, Wild Men - Hanif Kureishi An Unimportant Fire - Salman Rushdie Cosmopolis: London's Ethnic Minorities - Panikos Panayi White Hair Right Now: Styling the London Man - Caroline Cox The London Suit - Christopher Breward POLITICS / ECONOMICS From GLC to GLA: London Politics from Then to Now - John Davis Armagideon Time - Charlie Gere Staging Royal London - Fiona Henderson CCTV: City Watch - Niran Abbas Sex, Power and Miracles: A Suburban Triptych - David Gilbert The Transformation of Political and Cultural Space - Hilda Kean The State of London - Mike Phillips INFROSTRUCTURE Blowdown: The Rise and Fall of London's Tower Blocks - Joe Kerr End of the Line - Rod Mengham and Marc Atkins Rats with Wings: London's Battle with Animals - Gargi Bhattacharyya Abandoned Buildings - Nicholas Royle Higher and Higher: How London Fell for the Loft - Tom Dyckhoff Down in the Dirt - Patrick Wright Slow Flow: Thirty Years of Transport in London - Helen Caroline Evenden Architecture's Urban Shine and Brutal Reality - Murray Fraser Meteomedia; or, Why London's Weather Is in the Middle of Everything - Tom McCarthy CULTURE / SUBCULTURE Altering Images - Andrew Gibson Punk - Michael Bracewell Tales form Trash City - Paul Davies and Julie Cook Imaging Brixton - Allen Fisher Secret City: Psychogeography and the End of London - Phil Baker Occult London - Roger Luckhurst Groundswell - Sarah Kent London in the Early 1990s - Patrick Keiller Imaginary Landscapes, Jumbled Topographies: Cinematic London - Pamela Church Gibson Crime and Memory in the Capital - Robert Mighall References Bibliography Contributors Acknowledgements Photographic Acknowledgements Index.