{"id":5569,"date":"2014-03-26T16:17:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:16:51","slug":"mount-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/03\/mount-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of \u2018Mount London\u2019 by a team of writers and urban cartographers, each scaling a smaller hill within the city &#8211; from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m). The essays and stories in <em>Mount London<\/em> unpeel London\u2019s history and geography, reimagining the city as mountainous terrain and exploring what it\u2019s like to move through the urban landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Ascents of natural peaks are offset by expeditions to the city\u2019s artificial mountains \u2013 The Shard (306m), the chimneys of Battersea Power Station (103m) \u2013 the search for \u2018ghost hills\u2019 in the back streets, and a descent into the deepest part of the Tube.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117687713?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Contributors<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Matt D. Brown, Sarah Butler, Tom Chivers, Liz Cookman, David Cooper, Tim Cresswell, Alan Cunningham, Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Katy Evans-Bush, SJ Fowler, Bradley L. Garrett, Edmund Hardy, Justin Hopper, Martin Kratz, Amber Massie-Blomfield, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Helen Mort, Mary Paterson, Gareth E. Rees, Gemma Seltzer, Chrissy Williams, Tamar Yoseloff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Map of Mount London<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/mapsengine.google.com\/map\/embed?mid=zIL0p02y0sfQ.ktNbx1X9gB80\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital &#8211; and at over 1,800 metres, it is Britain\u2019s highest peak. Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,4,33,31,157,26],"tags":[99,196,101,107,109,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18071,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions\/18071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}