CONTENTS
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
1.'Why London? Why Now?' The Swinging Moment 1
2.The Death of the Sixties, Part 1:
Soho-Sixties London's Erogenous Zone 48
3.The Death of the Sixties, Part 2: The Fall of the House of Biba 74
4.'Now That Londoners Have Discovered the Delights
of the Palate': Eating Out in 1960s and 1970s London 93
'Hot Property-It's Mine!' The Lure and the Limits of Home Ownership 124
6.'You Only Have to Look at Westway': The End of the Urban Motorway in London 161
7.The Conservation Consensus 183
8.East End Docklands and the Death of Poplarism 217
9.1he London Cabbie and the Rise of Essex Man 246
10.Protecting the Good Life: London's Suburbs 263
11.Containing Racism? The London Experience, 1957-1968 298
12.Unquiet Grove: The 1976 Notting Hill Carnival Riot 320
13.Reshaping the Welfare State? Voluntary Action and Community in London, 1960-1975 346
14.Strains of Labour in the Inner City 365
15.Selling Swinging London, or Coming to Terms with the Tourist 387
16.Becoming Postindustrial 407
Notes 435
Bibliography 525
Index 555