| Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent Contributor(s): Hatherley, Owen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0141991577 ISBN-13: 9780141991573 Publisher: Penguin UK OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - General - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 720.94 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.7" (0.70 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Over the past 20 years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centers, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere. In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm--the unplanned, car-centered, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it. |