Old Kent Road health centre and a number of primary and secondary schools. Officials have also suggested the development of a "green spine" of parks and green spaces along the mostly disused Surrey Canal. Old Kent Road is the first property square on the British Monopoly board, priced at £60 and forming the brown set along with the similarly working-class Whitechapel Road. It is the only square on the board in South London and south of the Thames. The road makes several appearances in literature. In Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield", the titular character runs down the road trying to escape from London to
Monopoly on violence Monopoly on violence The monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force, also known as the monopoly on violence (), is a core concept of modern public law, which goes back to Jean Bodin's 1576 work "Les Six livres de la République" and Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book "Leviathan". As the defining conception of the state, it was first described in sociology by Max Weber in his essay "Politics as a Vocation" (1919). Weber claims that the state is the "only human "Gemeinschaft" which lays claim to the monopoly on the legitimated use of physical force. However, this monopoly is limited