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Overview"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.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Owen HatherleyPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.617kg ISBN: 9781844676514ISBN 10: 184467651 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 08 November 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Replaced By: 9781844677009 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for Militant Modernism Hatherley's exhilarating manifesto for a reborn socialist modernism is inspired by an admirable desire to reawaken our sense of the utopian imaginary.A Guardian Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism would be insanely ambitious if he hadn't pulled off the seemingly impossible, compressed social, political and aesthetic analysis of modernist utopianism in a sizzling 160 pages. Mind-blowing.A Helen DeWitt, New Statesman Books of the Year With svelte prose, agile wit, and alarming erudition, Owen Hatherley prizes open the prematurely closed case of early twentieth-century modernism.A Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again Author InformationOwen Hatherley was born in 1981. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon, Guardian, London Review of Books and New Humanist and is the author of several books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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