| A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain Contributor(s): Hatherley, Owen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781680752 ISBN-13: 9781781680759 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Political Science | Political Economy - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 711.409 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (1.20 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call "the progressive nonsense" of the Big Society agenda. In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, but takes in Belfast, Aberdeen, Plymouth and Brighton, Hatherley explores modern Britain's urban landscape and finds a short-sighted disarray of empty buildings, malls and glass towers. Yet while A New Kind of Bleak anatomizes "broken Britain," Hatherley also looks to a hopeful future and discovers fragments of what it might look like. Illustrated by Laura Oldfield Ford, author and artist of Savage Messiah. |