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A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain
Owen Hatherley
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Description for A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain
Paperback. The urban state of the nation - from Olympic dreams to broken Britain Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AMVD; JFC; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 552.
This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call "the progressive nonsense" of the Big Society agenda.
In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, but takes in Belfast, Aberdeen, Plymouth and Brighton, Hatherley explores modern Britain's urban landscape and finds a short-sighted disarray of empty buildings, malls and glass towers. Yet while A New Kind of Bleak anatomizes "broken Britain," Hatherley also looks to a hopeful future and discovers fragments of what it might look like.
Illustrated by Laura Oldfield Ford, author and artist of Savage Messiah.
This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call "the progressive nonsense" of the Big Society agenda.
In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, but takes in Belfast, Aberdeen, Plymouth and Brighton, Hatherley explores modern Britain's urban landscape and finds a short-sighted disarray of empty buildings, malls and glass towers. Yet while A New Kind of Bleak anatomizes "broken Britain," Hatherley also looks to a hopeful future and discovers fragments of what it might look like.
Illustrated by Laura Oldfield Ford, author and artist of Savage Messiah.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
551g
Number of Pages
434
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781680759
SKU
V9781781680759
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99-3
About Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley was born in 1981. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon, Guardian, London Review of Books and New Humanist and is the author of several books.
Reviews for A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain
A humanely barbed Nikolaus Pevsner for our times ... This book should be required reading for planners, developers and architects.
Independent
Hatherley has busily constructed a cult reputation as the angry young man of architectural criticism.
Guardian
Engaging, fearless and startlingly intelligent polemicist.
Time Out
Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood ... Read more
Independent
Hatherley has busily constructed a cult reputation as the angry young man of architectural criticism.
Guardian
Engaging, fearless and startlingly intelligent polemicist.
Time Out
Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood ... Read more