Facebook Twitter Pinterest Milton Keynes got its name from the village it was built upon. In fact, Milton Keynes was the name of a Buckinghamshire village that was about to be engulfed by the new city. Ancient lanes and Georgian brick houses still survive in the midst of Milton Keynes, trapped among the precast concrete terraces, the business parks and the traffic-segregating underpasses. Istanbul, once called Constantinople and before that Byzantium, has been the capital city of three different empires. This is an edited extract from The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic, published by Allen Lane (RRP £25.00).

Source: The Guardian October 31, 2016 07:31 UTC