The Hebbert-Inwood disagreement is as much about the present as the past.

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Mr Inwood, in his book, concedes that for most of its history London has not done too badly without a central guiding hand.

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While both men acknowledge the tremendous wealth of the successful bits of London, Mr Inwood also sees a very dark side to contemporary London.

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Mr Sheppard's book, which covers the same period, is more analytical in style and at about a third of the length seems more manageable than Mr Inwood's effort.

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On September 29th, Jim Swimm, who lives in northern Manhattan, was taking a lunchtime walk in Inwood Hill Park when he saw a body floating in the Hudson.

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Her first stop was the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood, where she was surrounded by supporters carrying signs that read "Christine Quinn for Mayor" and wearing baseball caps with her initials on them.

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Looking at 2, 250 individuals from the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project, researchers found a 40 percent lower risk among those who stuck to this diet, scientists reported in the Annals of Neurology in 2006.

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"The US Court of Appeals states that the research is legal, and that the fleet has a right to be there, " says Glenn Inwood, who runs a New Zealand public relations company, Omeka Communications, employed to speak on behalf of the Japanese.

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While Mr Inwood spends several pages describing the Great Fire of 1666, with the help of accounts by contemporaries such as Pepys and Clarendon, Mr Sheppard devotes a single paragraph to describing one of the seminal events in London's history before moving on to the rather less gripping subject of the planning regulations that governed the rebuilding of the city.

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