Georgian Squares and Medieval Cliffs: The Character of Britain’s Great Cities
Britain’s cities are often described through eras — Roman, medieval, Georgian, Victorian, modern — as though time arrived in neat packages and then moved on. Walking their streets tells a different story. History here is cumulative. New ideas settle beside old ones. Streets evolve without forgetting why they were first laid out. What gives Britain’s great cities their character is not a single period, but the way multiple eras remain…