A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

Name: A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Brand: Verso
SKU: 9781844677009-V
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By Owen Hatherley

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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."

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 416
Release Date:: 2011-07-01
Publication Date:: 2011-07-01
Publisher:: Verso
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1844677001
ISBN13:: 9781844677009
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 507 g
Height:: 141 cm
Width:: 212 cm
Thickness:: 34 cm

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