A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain by Hatherley, Owen

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781781680759)

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A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain by Hatherley, Owen

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain

$19.95
A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain by Hatherley, Owen

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call "the progressive nonsense" of the Big Society agenda.

In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, but takes in Belfast, Aberdeen, Plymouth and Brighton, Hatherley explores modern Britain's urban landscape and finds a short-sighted disarray of empty buildings, malls and glass towers. Yet while A New Kind of Bleak anatomizes "broken Britain," Hatherley also looks to a hopeful future and discovers fragments of what it might look like.

Illustrated by Laura Oldfield Ford, author and artist of Savage Messiah.

Author: Owen Hatherley
ISBN-10: 1781680752
ISBN-13: 9781781680759
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2013
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.50d
By Owen Hatherley
By Owen Hatherley
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Owen Hatherley is the author of the acclaimed Militant Modernism, a defense of the modernist movement, and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. He writes regularly on the political aesthetics of architecture, urbanism and popular culture for a variety of publications, including Building Design, Frieze, the Guardian and the New Statesman. He blogs on political aesthetics at nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com.

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