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A New Kind of Bleak

Paperback • 2013 • English

A New Kind of Bleak

By Owen Hatherley

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About the book

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call "the progressive nonsense" of the Big Society agenda. In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, Hatherley takes us from Plymouth and Brighton to Belfast and Aberdeen, by way of the eerie urbanism of the Welsh valleys and the much-mocked splendor of modernist Coventry. Everywhere outside the unreal Southeast, the building has stopped in towns and cities, which languish as they wait fo...Show more

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ISBN

9781781680759

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

A New Kind of Bleak

Format

Paperback

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