{"product_id":"a-new-kind-of-bleak-owen-hatherley-9781781680759","title":"A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eA New Kind of Bleak\u003c\/i\u003e anatomizes \"broken Britain,\" Hatherley also looks to a hopeful future and discovers fragments of what it might look like. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIllustrated by Laura Oldfield Ford, author and artist of \u003ci\u003eSavage Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Owen Hatherley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781680752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781680759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.50d","brand":"Owen Hatherley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447978012927,"sku":"9781781680759","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94a8dcdf-d1a5-4596-b77a-f485ca8ad9e9.jpg?v=1777236085","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-new-kind-of-bleak-owen-hatherley-9781781680759","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}