London is defined as hyper-diverse. I know of several studies on this topic, several characterizations of entire neighborhoods not only interesting for academics understand a little worried about the planet from the analysis of this capital, a meeting point for human tribes. Its particular areas become battlegrounds for political and inexhaustible source of inspiration for comedians. Each one is unique in its geography daily, in addition to its architecture, its people and the importance gained as regards the entire city. put Camden Town, for example, one of those unique places in the panorama of London. It is not easy to characterize with a single word, but cosmopolitan your convenience. This urban layout that stretches to the north is similar to a kind of diverse sample of a busy city. There are areas more organized and more advanced, but all appears to be in an invisible window for each person or each item is displayed as it is.
sometimes suspicious of the adjective "alternative" too much used to refer to this part of London famous in the early 90's in the anti-globalization. Today it is difficult to distinguish between the thousands of people and characters moving from one limit to another neighborhood, those valiant in a specific asset, perhaps because on the way there is room for everything from the purchase and sale of unusual objects such as The Hemp Store in , made from cannabis fibers, until the much-vilified or coveted shoes Nike JDSports. In Camden Town
everything and fit it all. Starting from the tents of the latest products in the music industry, and followed by others of vinyl records, a mythical gems glorious musical past, a past that suggested to be closely linked to the neighborhood. At this point the London landscape music is not expensive. Whether in clubs to jump and take the night djs orders of worship or shrines hottest bands ( Koko ) through oasis of intimacy and improvisation (Jazz Café ) and calling in the announcing as habanera corner of London ( The Cuban ).
While these You can find more traditional melodies, there are other sounds that may not be recorded to be played behind closed doors, but someone always wants to try. Because Camden is the scenario where the city runs its most anarchic urban symphony and innovative, not just through the speakers of the shops and restaurants. The composition appears frightened pigeons flapping, the cries of vendors, traffic horns and whistles unstoppable, the concert of voices and languages, or emissions of a steamer interrupting the tedium of the canal.
However, nothing defines both the place and its people, diverse and irreverent as the world, shy and exhibitionist, like all capital. And can that the appeal of this area goes back to another era. It is not only the preferred site for unique examples of contemporary celebrity Amy Winehouse style, or the best open gallery of Banksy, graffiti artist. Lived in Royal College Street, is loved and fought two damned poets (Rimbaud and Verlaine. century early English painters such as Walter Richard Sickert , Spencer Gore and Robert Bevan, among others, recreated on canvas images of the environment and still camdeano can be found here at fans of punk, with their hair colored, drawn, strutting through the streets as if it belonged to them, mindful of the cameras trying to capture them, whose owners do not notice a reminder that everything has a price, even if an innocent frame as a memento of a visit. Among the bustle, the comings and goings of naive and hopeful, of melancholy and adventurers, of desperate and curious, also overlook the Gothic with its dark clothing, mingled with tourists, mostly English sure that a tour without going through Camden Town does not count, because this is where one can appreciate the "great march" of the capital. And also get challenging school processions, noisy and gregarious, as cats marking territory to conquer,
Although the marks are not distinguishable, because here is not intended both as personal bubble as in other parts of the British city. Above all one must move, not only to imagine the pace of the place, it should feel. Immobility has no place in this environment often rickety and fragile as a building of Havana, after a hurricane.
And if it is difficult to stand still is impossible to remain inert, because the space heightens the senses requires sensory alertness. Do not listen to the polyphony of the neighborhood! I do not see the contrasts, the faces, the colors! How to limit the touch of a mere recognition of surfaces! How to resist the smell of smoldering combinations Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, African and even Central America! I do not feel this piece of London!
weeks ago a fire destroyed part of the neighborhood. The flames rose enough to foretell the complete destruction of this kind of lung northern London. However, the fire only burned a handful of buildings, which had little influence on the steady heartbeat of the neighborhood.
life apparently begins and continues here, judging by this gesture of invitation, offering mountains of noodles the Chinese vendors, the good mood of the Lithuanian jewelry trading with Baltic amber, the indifference of the antiquarian, the complacency of modern Moroccan carpet merchant, joy bovine dealer almost inviting you to know what travel, or simple citizen apathy way to work, warns his arrival in Camden Town by bus window. As he passes, the indisputably city moves and buzzes, as I said a great friend, the pace of a busy beehive.
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