{Extract: City Circles}[12th December 1989]

 [Redbook6:359][19891215:1003]{Extract: City Circles}[12th December 1989]

19891215.1003

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‘One of the most remarkable examples of the influence of the westward trend of population groups on social morphology is the orientation of the various class districts in the large European capitals. Residential and fashionable districts in Moscow, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Rome, Paris, London, and other cities are invariable situated in the “west end”,** whereas almost everywhere the “east end” is the slummy district.’

E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 18: 669, in ‘Europe’

*[The ms includes a copy of an extract from E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 18:669 which for copyright reasons cannot be reproduced here but in which the above extract has been highlighted in the margin]

**ref [] above

[Probably a reference to a journal entry recording the same observation made by the writer’s uncle as reported by the writer’s father]

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