In architecture, grand Victorian edifices were pulled down to make way for gleaming brutalist monuments to the Future. Via Santo Spirito: Between the Ponte alla Carraia and Ponte Santa Trinita, one block in from the river is this short and elegant street. I know your post isn’t about books and reading, but still think it’s the same connection here about how we try to go in depth in our travels and visits to cities.

Or, heading north, wander up past the synagogue to the wide, tree-lined Piazza d’Azeglio where little kids are in the playground and bigger kids are playing soccer. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.Taken together they offer a eulogy for what was lost and an impassioned defence of the past in the face of progress’s relentless onward march.

Elsewhere a couple of paragraphs are devoted to a notable work which is still in print today and much more space is devoted to a book I have never heard of. Amongst much of the population, however, such rapid change met with disquiet: a nagging sense that the New had displaced much that was wonderful in the Old. By turns eccentric, wistful and polemical, Betjeman's writing for the Telegraph gave voice to this unease.From contemporary reviews often refreshingly caustic of novelists such as Ian Fleming, Nancy Mitford and J.

Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places.D. Salinger, through prescient warnings about the threat posed to the English skyline by office blocks,. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.