An edition of A new kind of bleak
(2012)
A new kind of bleak
journeys through urban Britain
1st ed.
by Owen Hatherley
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Social conditions, Economic policy, Politics and government, City planning, great britain, Urban renewal, Land use, urbanPlaces
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A new kind of bleak: journeys through urban Britain
2012, Verso Books, Verso
in English
- 1st ed.
1844678571 9781844678570
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Table of Contents
Introduction: will there still be building, in the dark times?
The Thames gateway : one of the dark places of the earth
Teeside : infantilized hercules
Preston : nothing great but man
Barrow-in-Furness : diving for pearls
The metropolitan county of the West Midlands : the patchwork explains, the land is unchanged
Bristol : the tyranny of structurelessness
Brighton and Hove : on parade
Croydon : zone 5 strategy
Plymouth : fables of the reconstruction
Oxford : Quadrangle and Banlieue
Leicester : another middle England
Lincoln : between two cathedrals
The valleys : I am a pioneer, they cAll me primitive
Edinburgh : capital (it fails us now)
Aberdeen : where the money went
From Govan to Cumbernauld: was the solution worse than the problem?
Belfast : we are not going away
The City of London : the beginning is nigh
Acknowledgements
Index
Index of places.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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