Three talks by Jonathan Raban on the way we mould, and are moulded by, our urban environment
2: The New Castes
Jonathan Raban argues that membership of the city's ' elective castes Is advertised by clothes, by housefronts, by cars, by the plethora of modern urban dialects - camp, hippie, deb, media-freak, or what-have-you. Everyone his own shop window. To each his shaven head and saffron robe.'