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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
About this book
Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry-until the crash.
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage-the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, he provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment in which we live, work and consume. Scathing, forensic, bleakly humorous, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain is a coruscating autopsy of a get-rich-quick, aspirational politics, a brilliant, architectural "state we're in."
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage-the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, he provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment in which we live, work and consume. Scathing, forensic, bleakly humorous, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain is a coruscating autopsy of a get-rich-quick, aspirational politics, a brilliant, architectural "state we're in."
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General Index
Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations.
3XN 344
Ackroyd, Peter 122
Adjaye, David 236–7, 237, 238, 277
Aedas xii, 134, 345
AHMM 345, 347
Allies and Morrison 53, 79, 80, 223
Alsop, Will xii, 80–1, 231, 232, 274, 274, 294, 319
Anderson, Penny 151
Anderson, Perry xi
Andrews and Pepper 249
Anshen + Allen 248
Archial xii
Architectal Design (magazine) 77
Architects’ Journal vii
Architectural Association xi, xii
Architectural Review 93–4
architectural schools xi–xii
Armet & Davis xxvi
Arup Associates 221
Aslet, Clive 49
Atherden Fuller 151
Attlee, Clement 47
AWW Architecture 189
Bad British Architecture (website) 36, 40
Bainbridge, Beryl 331, 335
Baines, George Grenfell 41
Ballard, J. G. 2–3, 137, 302
Banham, Reyner 12–4, 89, 93
Barker, Paul 12–4
Barratt Homes 52, 95
Bayley, Stephen 8–9, 330
Benjamin, Walter 28, 41
Bennett, T. P. 186
Benson & Forsyth 65–6
Berger, Leon 6, 8, 10, 26, 43
Bernstein, Howard 116
Bevan, Aneurin 99, 278
Bilbao effect, the xxii, xxix, 25
BIQ Architecten 341
Blears, Hazel 148–50
Blonski Heard 54
Bloxham, Tom 97–8, 138
Blueprint (magazine) 194
Braddock & Martin-Smith 108
Bradshaw Rose and Harker 332
branding, cities 63
Branson Coates 78
Britain’s Changing Towns 92–3
British Landscape, The...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: The Change We See
- Southampton: Terminus City
- Milton Keynes: Buckinghamshire Alphaville
- Nottingham: The Banality of Aspiration
- Sheffield: The Former Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire
- Manchester: So Much to Answer For
- Tyneside: From Brasilia to Baltic
- Glasgow: Looking for the Future in All the Wrong Places
- Cambridge: Silicon Fences
- The West Riding: Instead of a Supercity
- Cardiff: Manufacturing a Capital
- Greenwich: Estuarine Enclaves
- Liverpool: Exit
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- General Index
- Index of Places