A New Kind of Bleak Paperback by Owen Hatherley

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2013-04-09)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 400 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781781680759
• Item Weight: 553.39 grams
• Dimensions: 21.06 x 14.12 x 3.48 cm

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.

About the Author

Owen Hatherley is the author of the acclaimed Militant Modernism, a defense of the modernist movement, and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. He writes regularly on the political aesthetics of architecture, urbanism and popular culture for a variety of publications, including Building Design, Frieze, the Guardian and the New Statesman. He blogs on political aesthetics at <a href="http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/">nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com</a>.