A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain
Owen Hatherley, "A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1781680752, 1844678571 | 400 pages | EPUB | 7.3 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1781680752, 1844678571 | 400 pages | EPUB | 7.3 MB
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, but takes in Belfast, Aberdeen, Plymouth and Brighton, Hatherley explores modern Britain’s urban landscape and finds a short-sighted disarray of empty buildings, malls and glass towers. Yet while A New Kind of Bleak anatomizes “broken Britain,” Hatherley also looks to a hopeful future and discovers fragments of what it might look like.
Illustrated by Laura Oldfield Ford, author and artist of Savage Messiah.