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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
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- Owen Hatherley
- Verso
- Paperback
- 9781844677009
- 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.3 inches
- 1.1 pounds
- Travel > Europe - Great Britain
- English
Book Description
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.
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