Overview

Bread and circuses-free food and mass entertainment-was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the common people happy and rebellion-free. Jonathan Glancey, in this personal and passionate essay about the city he loves, suggests that the same unformulated policy is the means by which modern London's citizens are kept as apolitical and passively pleasure-loving as possible. But shops, restaurants and a few gorgeous buildings are, he maintains, a poor substitute for a creaking infrastructure, and London's cachet as a boisterously creative but well-run city will plummet if private vice is allowed to triumph over public virtue.

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Author:   Jonathan Glancey
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 18.50cm
Weight:   0.242kg
ISBN:  

9781859844649

ISBN 10:   1859844642
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   17 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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His small book is peculiarly significant because it is totally un-selfconscious, a final despairing shout from a humanist for whom architecture is too often vacuous bunkum. -- Jay Merrick * Independent * Jonathan Glancey is a wonderful communicator. -- Norman Foster

Jonathan Glancey is a wonderful communicator. - Norman Foster a cri de Coeur ... a final despairing shout from a humanist for whom architecture is too often vacuous bunkum. -- Jay Merrick, Independent

Author Information

Jonathan Glancey is Architecture and Design Editor of the Guardian, a position he previously held at the Independent. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, his previous books include New British Architecture, Twentieth Century Architecture and The Story of Architecture.

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