Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

Informationen zum Autor Owen Hatherley 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Owen Hatherley, Hatherley Owen
• Editore: Verso
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.07.2011
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del pae; Viaggi > Guide turistiche > Europa
• EAN: 9781844677009
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-700-9
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Categorie: 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