Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism - Couverture rigide

Hatherley, Owen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1839762217 ISBN 13 : 9781839762215

Editeur : Verso Books, 2021

Synopsis

How to make a fairer, more just city.
From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. Combining memoir, history, portraits of particular places and things, Hatherley argues for those who have tried to create and imagine a better modernity, both in terms of architecture, such as Zaha Hadid or Ian Nairn, in terms of the urban space, like Jane Jacobs or Marshall Berman, and the way we see the world more widely, like Mark Fisher or Adam Curtis. Together, these outline a vision of the city as both as a place of political argument and dispute, and as a space of everyday experience, one that we shape as much as it shapes us.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Owen Hatherley writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal,The Guardian, The London Review of Books and New Humanist, and is the author of several books: Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso 2012), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2015) and Landscapes of Communism (Penguin 2015), Trans-Europe Express (Penguin, 2018). He Lives in London

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1839762217
• ISBN 13: 9781839762215
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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