The Spectator, March 23rd, 2002
Hidden treasures
MILIZIA wrote, `The distribution of a city is like that of a park. There must be squares, crossroads, and straight and spacious streets in great number.'
Behind the busy, traffic-clogged thoroughfares that criss-cross London there can be found oases of peace and quiet, far removed from the hustle and bustle of modem city life. These leafy squares and hidden communal gardens - varying in size from a forlorn patch of threadbare grass used for dog-walking to manicured lawns and cultivated gardens - dotted in a seemingly arbitrary pattern around the capital, are a legacy of Geor...
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