A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain
Paperback Published on: 09/04/2013
£26.99
Synopsis
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.
- Publisher: Verso Books
- ISBN: 9781781680759
- Number of pages: 434
- Weight: 556g
- Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 35 mm