Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… with great success by urban historians such as Peter Borsay, is also well adapted to make sense of the relation between space, bookshops and urban sociability. As James Raven has pointed out, the community of London booksellers and printers … Row: ‘the ability of booksellers to remain within a particular neighbourhood, irrespective of changing needs for space, proved a valuable feature in the changing city’. 3 In the urban landscape, it is worth stressing that sociability … furniture and layout. There was an underlying tension between the need to enjoy confined and private reading or browsing space and the appeal of vast and inclusive shops. 6 . Peter Borsay, The Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the …
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