Ebook: The 32 stops: lives on London's Central line
Author: Dorling Daniel
- Tags: Human Geography, Social classes, Social classes--England--London, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Subways, Subways--England--London, Subways -- England -- London, Social classes -- England -- London, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes & Economic Disparity, England -- London
- Series: Penguin lines
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: England;London
- Language: English
- epub
Geographer Danny Dorling tells the stories of the people who live along The 32 Stops of the Central Line to illustrate the extent and impact of inequality in Britain today - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin
'Social geographer Danny Dorling has produced the most densely factual book, not about the Tube itself, but the living conditions of those above ... This book is an eye-opener about London now'
Evening Standard
'The 32 Stops animates statistics, extrapolating sociological data into pithy vignettes of life along the Central Line'
The Times
'Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O'Farrell and social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something for...