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Author Hatherley, Owen.

Title A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain / Owen Hatherley.

Imprint London : Verso, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  720.9420905 H285g 2010    ---  Available
Description xxxv, 369 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In a darkly humorous book, the author argues that neoliberalism has left much of Britain's architecture in shambles and asserts that the derelict British architecture of the 2010s is an emphatic expression of failed politics. By the author of Militant Modernism.
Subject Architecture -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
Architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Urban renewal -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2007.
ISBN 9781844676514 (hbk)
184467651X (hbk)
Standard No. AU@ 000046123237

 
    
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