The collection of articles that make up this issue came out of a series of meetings, titled “Transforming London: Rethinking Regeneration through Commerce, Planning and Art” and organized by Alison Blunt, David Pinder, and Miles Ogborn of Queen Mary, University of London; Michael Keith and Rob Stone of Goldsmiths College, University of London; Frank Mort of the University of East London; and Sophie Watson of the Open University. They were funded by Economic and Social Research Council Grant A2612. Erica Rappaport also presented a paper at the initial “Transforming London” meeting, while Mica Nava acted as the respondent. A version of Rappaport's paper was published as “Art, Commerce, or Empire? The Rebuilding of Regent Street, 1880–1927,” History Workshop Journal 53 (2002): 94–117 CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed. We would like to thank Edward Oliver, cartographer, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, for the cover image.

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