The final volume in the revised London series will cover the historic City of Westminster, the
West End of modern London. At its heart are Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament,
respectively the greatest medieval and Victorian monument of the capital. All around are
districts each with its own character and dominant building types, each will be described in separate
introductions: St James's with its clubhouses; aristocratic Mayfair; the government quarter of
Whitehall; teeming Soho and Covent Garden, with their nearby theatres and cinemas; the
residential stucco of Pimlico and Belgravia. The old Buildings of England descriptions will be fully
revised, while thirty years of new architecture will be surveyed and assessed for the first time.
