Having written a mighty tome about Cardiff, a street-by-street trudge from Mavrid Woodbury to Little Greenlane Reen, from Castell Morgraig to The Gut (yes, they all exist), I am in a better position than, ooh, about 6 billion other humans to pronounce on the bloody place. For full, intimate, no-stone-unturned analysis purchase Cardiff The Biography (I’m beginning to get the hang of this marketing lark). Part of the book divides the city into 15 areas and examines their pasts, presents and futures. Here is a pithy, elliptical snapshot of each:
- Adamsdown Jailhouse rock
- Butetown Cardiff-Sub-Mare
- Canton Heaven lies about us
- Cathays University of life
- City Centre Concrete and clay
- East Not Newport
- Gabalfa Fly
- Grangetown Got any green?
- Llandaf Curate’s egg
- North Ol’ man river
- North-East Exurbia
- North-West Morgannwg
- Roath Meet you at the white wall
- Splott Cardiff’s credentials
- West Follow the sun