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Artificial Islands - Adventures in the Dominions by Owen Hatherley
Category: Politics
Should Britain form a new union with its old 'Dominions' in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And is there any reason why they should want to unite again with us? Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive pos ...Show more
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
Category: History
"In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies." (Will Self). During the course of the twentieth c ...Show more
Nairn's Towns by Ian Nairn Owen Hatherley
Category: Classics
A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several things happening at once - assessments of historic tow ...Show more
Trans-Europe Express - Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
Category: Travel
'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city," from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen Jones A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the past twenty years European cities have ...Show more
Trans-Europe Express : Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
Category: Architecture
A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic eg ...Show more
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