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.
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The urban state of the nation - from Olympic dreams to broken Britain
A humanely barbed Nikolaus Pevsner for our times ... This book should be required reading for planners, developers and architects.
The urban state of the nation-from Olympic dreams to broken Britain
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781781680759
Publisert
2013-04-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
556 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
3 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
434
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