Trans-Europe Express

Informationen zum Autor Owen Hatherley is the author of many books on aesthetics and politics, including Landscapes of Communism , Trans-Europe Express and Modern Buildings in Britain . He is a commissioning editor at Jacobin. Klappentext Owen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for the Architectural Review , The Calvert Journal , Dezeen, the Guardian, Jacobin and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books, most recently Landscapes of Communism , The Ministry of Nostalgia and The Chaplin Machine . Zusammenfassung Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, 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-centred, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Hatherley
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780141991573
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199157-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Europe; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Regional, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Human Geography, Urban communities, Regional Geography, Landscape architecture and design, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings