Our Athens and Rome
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1236064,00.html

Tristram Hunt does justice to the great cities built by the Victorians
in Building Jerusalem, says Stephen Bayley

Saturday June 12, 2004
The Guardian

Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
by Tristram Hunt
432pp, Weidenfeld, £25

Sewers have made at least as great a contribution to civilisation as
the classical orders of architecture. The 83 miles of them that the
Victorians laid beneath London made a vast horizontal cosmopolis
hygienically viable in the same way that, a century later, the
passenger lift and air-conditioning made the vertical New York a
technical possibility. Yet Sir Joseph Bazalgette (sewer designer,
embankment builder, bridge engineer) is not a household name. This is
a damaging prejudice.

Tristram Hunt