The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Notes
1 London, 35mm color, 85 min., BFI Films,
London, 1994.
2 Robinson in Space, 35mm color, 82 min.,
BBC Films, London, 1997.
3 “Nations for Sale” a study of Britain’s overseas
image, was written by Anneke Elwes in 1994 for
the international advertising network DDB
Needham. Patrick Wright reports (“Wrapped in
Tatters of the Flag,” Guardian, 31 December
1994) that she found Britain “a dated concept”
difficult “to reconcile with reality.”
4 The statement is part of Lord Henry Wotton’s
monologue to Dorian on their first meeting;
see Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in
Complete Works, general ed. J. B. Foreman (London:
Collins, 1948), p. 32.
5 The words quoted are from chapter 23 of
Raoul Vaneigem’s Traité de savoir-faire à l’usage des
jeunes générations, known in English as The Revolution
of Everyday Life. This translation is from
Leaving the Twentieth Century, translated and
edited by Christopher Gray (London: Free Fall
Publications, 1974), p. 138, in which chapter 23
appears as “Self-Realisation, Communication,
and Participation.”
6 Rimbaud’s letter is quoted in Enid Starkie,
Arthur Rimbaud (London: Faber and Faber,
1961), p. 359.
7 Port Statistics (London: HMSO) is compiled
annually by the Department of Transport. Most
of the figures I cite are from the 1995 edition.
8 The United Kingdom’s total port traffic in
1994 was 538 million tonnes.
The ten major world ports in 1994
were Rotterdam, 294 million tonnes; Singapore,
224 million freight tons; Shanghai, 166 million
tonnes; Hong Kong, 111 million tonnes;
Nagoya, 120 million freight tons; Antwerp, 110
million tonnes; Yokohama, 103 million freight
tons; Marseilles, 91 million tonnes; Long Beach,
88 million tonnes; and Busan, 82 million tonnes.
Among major ports in the EU in
1994 were Rotterdam, Antwerp, Marseilles;
Hamburg, 68 million tonnes; Le Havre, 54 million
tonnes; London, 52 million tonnes; Amsterdam,
48 million tonnes; Genoa, 43 million
tonnes; Dunkirk, 37 million tonnes; Zeebrugge,
33 million tonnes; and Bremen, 31 million
tonnes.
Port Statistics
9 Tony Lane, conversation with author, April
1996.
10 As reported in the Independent, 21 January
1996.
11 The Scott inquiry investigated U.K. arms
sales to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war and thereafter.
Its public hearings, between May 1993 and
June 1994, were a continuing source of revelations
about the conduct of ministers and officials
of the Thatcher government. Its report was published
in February 1996.
12 Sarah Hogg and Jonathan Hill, Too Close to
Call: Power and Politics, John Major in No. 10
(London: Little, Brown, 1995), p. 125.
13 Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into
the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
(1757), ed. Adam Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1990), p. 36.
14 See Arthur Oswald, “Country Homes and
Gardens Old and New: West Green House,
Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, the Seat of Evelyn,
Duchess of Wellington,” Country Life, 21 November
1936, pp. 540–545.
15 See, e.g., Independent, 12 May 1996.