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Title: A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Condition: New
Author: Owen Hatherley
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1844677001
EAN: 9781844677009
ISBN: 9781844677009
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Law & Politics, Architecture & Antiques
Release Date: 01/07/2011
Description: Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry-until the crash.
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage-the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, he provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment in which we live, work and consume. Scathing, forensic, bleakly humorous, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain is a coruscating autopsy of a get-rich-quick, aspirational politics, a brilliant, architectural "state we're in."
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 211mm
Item Length: 142mm
Item Width: 33mm
Item Weight: 503g
Release Year: 2011

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