London Encounters, is an interdisciplinary study of slices of the life, history and the materiality of London. The book provides scholarly, yet accessible, aspects on urbanity in both history and the present. It has come about through the interdisciplinary research node The Good City, shich consists of senior researchers and Master's degree students from Uppsala University, Sweden. The Good City, Urbanism and Social Change is a cooperative interdisciplinary project involving the departments of Archaeology and Ancient History, Art History and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology within the Faculty of Arts at Uppsala University.