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A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain


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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.

About the Author :
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.

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A humanely barbed Nikolaus Pevsner for our times ... This book should be required reading for planners, developers and architects. Hatherley has busily constructed a cult reputation as the angry young man of architectural criticism. Engaging, fearless and startlingly intelligent polemicist. Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood start to boil when they hear the word 'regeneration.' Owen Hatherley brings to bear a quizzing eye, venomous wit, supple prose, refusal to curry favour, rejection of received ideas, exhaustive knowledge and all-round bolshiness. Fierce and original. He writes with venom and flare ... [It is] refreshing to see politics reintroduced to the architectural debate. [A] bracing antidote to the faux-chumminess of so much British cultural discourse. A timely counterpoint to Britain's jubilee and Olympics self-congratulation ... observed with a precision and fury to force you to open your eyes.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781781680759
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 434
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Weight: 556 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1781680752
  • Publisher Date: 09 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Journeys through Urban Britain
  • Width: 140 mm


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