Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

Informationen zum Autor Owen Hatherley was born in 1981. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon, Guardian, London Review of Book s and New Humanist and is the author of several books. Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung Darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Hatherley, Hatherley Owen
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9781844677009
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-700-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Travel > Travel guides > Europe; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Urban & municipal planning, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements