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Curiocity

por Henry Eliot, Matt Lloyd-Rose (Autor)

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Curiocity is a new A to Z exploring every aspect of life in London. Its 26 chapters weave together the city's stories with striking reflections, practical ideas and itineraries, and contributions from London voices such as Monica Ali and Iain Sinclair. The book is illustrated by artists including Chris Riddell, Isabel Greenberg and Steven Appleby, and at the heart of each chapter is an original hand-drawn map, charting everything from the city's international communities, underground spaces and children's dreams, to its unrealised plans, erogenous zones and dystopian futures. Curiocity is a unique guide that will transform the way you see and experience London.… (más)
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Mostly engrossing, occasionally tedious, thoroughly unique. My daughter is about to move to London to go to the Royal Academy of Music, so now I have to immerse myself in London, as I have done in Baltimore, New York, and Montreal. This book will have you looking up lots of stuff on the internet since the illustrations here, while nice, hardly replace photographs of the things discussed--such as the clock stopped by the bomb from the Zeppelin in 1915. If you're tired of London, you're tired of life, Samuel Johnson said. If you're tired of this book, you are probably also tired of life. So many little tidbits of things to do. Not your usual guidebook. Thanks to the authors for a book which should never be out of print! ( )
  datrappert | May 20, 2021 |
When I returned from London in the middle of June 2016 I was even more enamoured with the city that I had long dreamed about. Visiting the places where many of my icons and inspirations had walked and lived only stoked my fire to know more about this magic-filled city - which I have since referred to as the Wonder City, after seeing a performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe as part of their Summer of Wonder. In typical fashion, I delved into even more books set in the city, but when I heard about the artistic reimagining of London which would become Cutiocity I had to get on the pre-order list. After having my order get cancelled by Chapters and having to resort to Amazon to fulfill my desires I finally received my neon-red cloth-bound copy of the tome - which would then go on to sit neglected on my TBR pile for almost 3 years... Even though it took ages to get to, the book was worth the wait, because its filled chalk-a-block full of wit and whimsy about London. Some chapters I could take or leave (sports, uck), but the authors covered almost everything that one could hope for in an alternative travel guide masquerading as a coffee table art book. I especially liked their inclusion of figures and locales from the literary, music, and queer populations, while largely avoiding the taint of celebrity stalking. Sure, the royal family and the Beatles are mentioned, but in such a passing way that they become part of the London landscape alongside all the other weird and wonderful people of London. In theory, this book could have been another 500 pages long, and they still would barely have scratched the surface, but even so the amount of material that they managed to cram in was adorable. Maybe a sequel in the future? I would definitely buy it, and I'll definitely be getting copies of their neighbourhood/thematic maps the next time I visit London (hopefully next year)! ( )
1 vota JaimieRiella | Feb 25, 2021 |
Beautifully presented and illustrated. A book which I will be dipping into for years to come! ( )
  neal_ | Apr 10, 2020 |
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After Brexit, Londoners were heard muttering about having “more in common with Paris than Preston”; some 70,000 people signed an online petition calling for the capital to secede from the UK. If that unlikely event should ever happen, the new city state could perhaps look to Curiocity for its little red book. Or, more accurately, its whopping great red book, since Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose’s cloth-bound, illustrated treasury of London-related data, tips, impressions, recommendations, instructions, injunctions, reminiscences, myths, lists, plans, flow charts and much else besides runs to more than 450 tactile paper pages. At this juncture, almost everything about it feels purposely, almost comically, designed to rub regional Brexiters up the wrong way.

For a start, its co-authors are youngish and have nothing but love for the capital. One of them, Lloyd-Rose, having decamped to Argentina in 2015 after seven years in London and a shared flat in Crouch End, filed his contributions from Buenos Aires – a detail trumpeted with a degree of global go-getting pride in the accompanying biographical notes. It also may explain the passing reference to a Jorge Luis Borges story in the introduction, and the hint in a section on dating that the Negracha Tango House in Holborn is the ideal place to take a date to if you want to reach third base.

Curiocity began life in 2009 as an easily pocketable, fold-out map-magazine that ran to six editions. This new, scarcely backpack-able volume, arranged in an A-Z format, also has cartography at its heart. Playful hand‑drawn pictorial maps by cartoonist Stephen Appleby and others – on such themes as London Utopia or featuring the Empire Windrush bobbing on the Thames – crop up with the regularity of Dot Cotton in EastEnders. Phyllis Pearsall, the progenitor of the London street atlas, is cited as inspiration, alongside the lexicographer and coiner of that most tiresome observation about tiredness of the capital, Dr Samuel Johnson.

The ghost of quite another London Johnson – Boris – hangs over its Tiggerish authors’ occasionally florid outbreaks of boosterism. (They do, however, rightly credit his mayoral predecessor Ken Livingstone for the “Boris Bike” cycling scheme.) Ultimately, this book is much more a product of Silicon Roundabout than Grub Street. While there are brief pieces from a former lord mayor, the astronomer royal and the writers Philip Pullman, Monica Ali and Nick Papadimitriou, a lengthy list of Twitter handles at the back credits unspecified contributions from the hive mind of social media.

Indeed the layout of the book, with its plethora of infographics, countless footnotes and cross-references to other sections, invites – quite possibly induces – internet-stye browsing of its pages. The pleasurably apocryphal can sometimes get crushed by qualifiers, and the fascinating lost amid dull exposition. A degree of press release cut-and-paste is also in evidence. Yet the authors’ delight in London trivia is infectious. I had never given much thought to the origins of the fast‑food chain Chicken Cottage, but it was a pleasure to find its story outlined here. Such a titbit might become as invaluable to future students of obesity in the early 21st century as Henry Mayhew’s accounts of street piemen are to our understanding of Victorian eating habits.

If there’s anyone who still yearns for London to leave the UK, Eliot and Lloyd-Rose show that the idea is not without its historical precedent. In 1977, the squatter residents of Freston Road in Notting Hill attempted to establish the breakaway Independent Republic of Frestonia; its citizens all adopted the surname Bramley in a bid to confuse local council officials intent on evicting them. Another example: since 2008, the father and son-founded, budding dominion of Austenasia, composed of a handful of terrace houses not far from Croydon Ikea, has been making its own bid for freedom, if so far only obtaining recognition from a no less eccentric micronation in Manitoba.

As for linking with Europe, it emerges that during the second world war, a suite in Claridge’s hotel, Mayfair, was fleetingly ceded to Yugoslavia to allow the Crown Prince Alexander, child of the exiled king, to be born on “home” soil – suggesting that when officials put their minds to it, London’s geography can be almost limitless.
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Curiocity is a new A to Z exploring every aspect of life in London. Its 26 chapters weave together the city's stories with striking reflections, practical ideas and itineraries, and contributions from London voices such as Monica Ali and Iain Sinclair. The book is illustrated by artists including Chris Riddell, Isabel Greenberg and Steven Appleby, and at the heart of each chapter is an original hand-drawn map, charting everything from the city's international communities, underground spaces and children's dreams, to its unrealised plans, erogenous zones and dystopian futures. Curiocity is a unique guide that will transform the way you see and experience London.

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