A new kind of bleak : journeys through urban Britain / Owen Hatherley.

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:1st ed.
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2012.
Main Author:
Hatherley, Owen
Subjects:
Great Britain > Social conditions > 21st century.
Great Britain > Economic policy > 21st century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 21st century.
Format: Book
A new kind of bleak : journeys through urban Britain /
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.

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