Results tagged “City”

Psychogeography is an actual thing, a proper area of research, and not just some pseudo course dreamt up by the Hanger Lane Gyratory School of Further Studies to con Arabs out of £9,000.

It is the study of the effects of the environment on the emotions and behaviour of its inhabitants.

Residents of Tower Hamlets can now add their names to the borough's bid for city status.

The council have launched a petition to back the campaign which has competition from 25 other candidates including Blackpool, Middlesborough and Reading.

Tower Hamlets - for all its many ills - should have as good a chance as its rivals to become a city.

Less historic than the City of London, less glamorous than the City of Westminster, it still stands head and shoulders above the suburban conformity of a Reading or the dourness of a Middlesbrough.

Tower Hamlets could be in line to become Britain's newest city.

The borough has launched a bid to be granted city status as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations next year, when one local authority area will be granted the honour.

One New Change has transformed the landscape of the Square Mile, with its developers hoping to reinvent the City into a seven-day tourist destination.

Thousands of people flocked to the new shopping centre last week, as One New Change opened in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral.

President Barack Obama's assault on Wall Street is driven more by political expediency than economic necessity.

His lack of tangible progress (job creation) in his first year has lost him much ground and the new round of bank bonuses has only served to rub his nose in his apparent impotency.

BOOK
Confessions Of A City Girl by Suzana S
Virgin books, £7.99
1/5

IN A NUTSHELL
The eponymous City Girl extends her column into a full length docudrama.

In Canary Wharf, the trader evokes images of pinstriped suits and yelling at phones.

But former City analyst Conor Woodman has seen many different breeds around the world, and they don't all carry mobiles and briefcases.

Click here to see The Wharf's pictures of the protests.

Protesters were penned in by riot police for more than eight hours as G20 protests were hit by spasms of violence.

Wine bottles were thrown and an effigy of a banker was burned from a lamppost as frustrations grew at the immovable cordon around Bank station.

I have not, in all honesty, been forced to ask this question much before but now it nags at my brain like a barbed wire bowler.

What should I wear? The talk is of nothing else. We press coat-hangered crustie-wear to our chests and size it up in full-length Oxfam mirrors.