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A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain

by OwenHatherley (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

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Synopsis

What happens when ruination overtakes regeneration? Following on from A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley investigates the fate of British cities in the desolate new world of savage public-sector cuts, when government funds are withdrawn and the Welfare State abdicates. He explores the urban consequences of what Conservatives privately call the progressive nonsense of the Big Society and the localism agenda, the putative replacement of the state with charity and voluntarism; and he casts an eye over the last great Blairite schemes limping to completion, from London's Shard to the site of the 2012 Olympics. Crisscrossing Britain from Aberdeen to Plymouth, from Croydon to Belfast, A New Kind of Bleak finds a landscape left to rot - and discovers strange and potentially radical things growing in the wasteland.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 18 Jun 2012
ISBN 10: 1844678571
ISBN 13: 9781844678570

Media Reviews
Praise for A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain: This is the real Britain, and Hatherley is the most informed, opinionated and acerbic guide you could wish for. Hugh Pearman, Sunday Times; A book of finespun rage - this is a book that had to be written. Rowan Moore, Observer; Fear and loathing in lost Albion. Independent; Bold and original, it may change how you see British cities. Andy Beckett, Guardian; A sardonic snapshot of the parlous state of our built environment. Hari Kunzru, New Statesman Books of the Year; Wonderfully provocative. Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph.
Author Bio
OWEN HATHERLEY is the author of the acclaimed A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain and Militant Modernism, a defense of the modernist movement. 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.