London: Bread and Circuses by Glancey, Jonathan

London: Bread and Circuses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781859844649)

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London: Bread and Circuses by Glancey, Jonathan

London: Bread and Circuses

$19.95
London: Bread and Circuses by Glancey, Jonathan

London: Bread and Circuses

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Bread and circuses--free food and mass entertainment--was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the common people happy and rebellion-free. Jonathan Glancey, in this personal and passionate essay about the city he loves, suggests that the same unformulated policy is the means by which modern London's citizens are kept as apolitical and passively pleasure-loving as possible. But shops, restaurants and a few gorgeous buildings are, he maintains, a poor substitute for a creaking infrastructure, and London's cachet as a boisterously creative but well-run city will plummet if private vice is allowed to triumph over public virtue.

Author: Jonathan Glancey
ISBN-10: 1859844642
ISBN-13: 9781859844649
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2003
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.46h x 5.44w x 0.43d
By Jonathan Glancey
By Jonathan Glancey
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Jonathan Glancey is Architecture and Design Editor of the Guardian, a position he previously held at the Independent. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, his previous books include New British Architecture, Twentieth Century Architecture and The Story of Architecture.

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