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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

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as "essentially right: for all the talk of renewal, renaissance, regeneration and world-class architecture, and all the billions expended, our cities are, with some exceptions, more screwed up than they have ever been."
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to those he criticises, the book's lack of input from the citizens and residents of the areas described, and its lack of any proposed alternative, but describes
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Hatherley most keenly explores the public and municipal architecture of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including
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and the remains of past civic improvements. In Cambridge, Hatherley reluctantly praises the
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The journey, on which Hatherley was accompanied by photographer Joel Anderson, begins in
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as "decent, upstanding, moderate modernism" and praises buildings in the vicinity of
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published in 2008. Considerable overlap and repetition exists between the two works.
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is Hatherley's second book, following a quartet of essays entitled
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who presided over the demolition of council housing, and the
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of the masses, instead favouring an ethic shaped by urban
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having come closest to fulfilment. Hatherley criticises
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Britain, taking the form of a tour of British cities.
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Index


Owen Hatherley
British architecture
urbanism
modern architecture
brutalist architecture
Verso Books
ISBN
9781844676514
Owen Hatherley
Verso Books
architecture
urbanism
postmodern
Militant Modernism
autopsy
urban renaissance
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
private finance initiative
city academies
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Karl Seitz
Karl Marx-Hof
Vienna
Austrian Civil War
catalogue raisonné
Southampton
Milton Keynes
Nottingham

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