The Scientific paradigm is admittedly weak on the concepts of soul and spirit - but we wish to examine both in our consideration of London as a lifeform.
On one level, a city such as London is ‘merely’ a three-dimensional exercise in architecture - or perhaps sculpture.
However, there is an undeniably organic quality to any city; it adheres to most of the definitions of ‘life’. Indeed, few would refuse to accept that (even if only in metaphor) London is alive; it moves; it changes form; it courses; it throbs; it cycles - and it may one day die.
Poets have always believed that every city has its own rhythm, its own pulse, its own personality, all in transcendence of the multiplicity of lives living within - assuming there is a ‘within’ to speak of.
