Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

Name: Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
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ISBN: 9781844677009

ISBN-10: 1844677001

ISBN-13: 9781844677009

Edition: 2011

Authors: Owen Hatherley

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 7/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.25" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Owen Hatherley is a writer based in Woolwich and Warsaw, contributing regularly to Architects Journal, Icon, the Guardian and New Humanist. He is the author of several books, most recently A New Kind of Bleak (Verso 2012), Across the Plaza (Strelka 2012) and Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane, 2015)



Introduction: The Change We See


Southampton: Terminus City


Milton Keynes: Buckinghamshire Alphaville


Nottingham: The Banality of Aspiration


Sheffield: The Former Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire


Manchester: So Much to Answer For


Tyneside: From Brasilia to Baltic


Glasgow: Looking for the Future in All the Wrong Places


Cambridge: Silicon Fences


The West Riding: Instead of a Supercity


Cardiff: Manufacturing a Capital


Greenwich: Estuarine Enclaves


Liverpool: Exit


Acknowledgements


Notes


General Index


Index of Places