Featureless monoliths, bare pavements and dreary walkways could be greatly improved if they were inscribed with relevant extracts from novels, plays and poetry - stamped in concrete, carved in stone, turning every stroll into a literary adventure - just as poetry was engraved on pavements along the Jubilee Gardens, set there during the Festival of Britain in 1951; and just as poetry has featured in advertising spaces on the London Underground and on Dublin billboards.
Extracts from works which never mention London could also be used as long as they were relevant to their location. Thus we could see psalms in the pavements of Ludgate Hill on the way to St Paul's, Confucius and Lao Tzu in Chinatown, and on Greek Street a sprinkling of Plato.