A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain - Couverture souple

Hatherley, Owen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844677001 ISBN 13 : 9781844677009

Editeur : Verso Books, 2011

Synopsis

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.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Owen Hatherley is the author of the acclaimed Militant Modernism, a defense of the modernist movement. He writes on architecture, urbanism and popular culture for Building Design, Frieze, the Guardian and New Statesman. He blogs on political aesthetics at nastybrutalistandshort. blogspot.com. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844677001
• ISBN 13: 9781844677009
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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