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33 produkter
Modern Buildings in Britain
A Gazetteer
Inbunden, 2024
443 kr
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The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture returns in a beautiful new editionModernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain’s history is fiercely contested, and its role in our future is …
Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects
Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC
Häftad, 2024
146 kr
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A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future.In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time, it held that cities were at their best when they were driven …
Landscapes of Communism
A History Through Buildings
Häftad, 2016
192 kr
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'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 SelfDuring the course of the twentieth …
Landscapes of Communism
A History Through Buildings
E-bok, 2015
136 kr
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'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 SelfDuring the course of the twentieth …
Trans-Europe Express
Tours of a Lost Continent
E-bok, 2018
105 kr
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'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city", from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen JonesA searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its citiesOver the past twenty years European cities …
Alienation Effect
How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2026
192 kr
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'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers' Guardian Britain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they …
Trans-Europe Express
Tours of a Lost Continent
Häftad, 2019
137 kr
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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 egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a …
Modern Buildings in Britain
A Gazetteer
E-bok, 2022
170 kr
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The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture, from one of the most acclaimed critics at work todayModernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain's history is fiercely contested, and its role …
Alienation Effect
How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2025
380 kr
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Britain. Made in Europe.A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of the Year 2025In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or …
Alienation Effect
How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2025
147 kr
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'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers' Guardian Britain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they …
Chaplin Machine
Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
Inbunden, 2016
343 kr
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Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin?Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy?And why did Lenin love circus clowns?The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the …
Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
E-bok, 2011
179 kr
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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 …
New Kind of Bleak
Journeys through Urban Britain
E-bok, 2013
179 kr
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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 …
Chaplin Machine
Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
E-bok, 2016
126 kr
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Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of …
Ministry of Nostalgia
Consuming Austerity
Häftad, 2017
374 kr
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In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a "make do and mend" aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the …
Ministry of Nostalgia
Consuming Austerity
E-bok, 2016
174 kr
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In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a "make do and mend" aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the …
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism
Inbunden, 2021
232 kr
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From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. Combining memoir, …
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism
E-bok, 2021
133 kr
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From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. Combining memoir, …
Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Häftad, 2011
537 kr
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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 …
Militant Modernism
Häftad, 2009
110 kr
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"Militant Modernism" argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much more on the lesser known, quotidian modernists of the 20th …
Uncommon
Häftad, 2011
114 kr
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If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called 'Britpop', …
Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott: Luke Fowler
Häftad, 2013
113 kr
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This companion publication to Luke Fowler’s film of the same name features essays by architecture critic and cultural commentator Owen Hatherley and historian Tom Steele. Lending additional context to Fowler’s study of the activist/historian E.P. Thompson, it brings further illuminating insights to …
Red Metropolis
An Essay on the Government of London
Häftad, 2020
127 kr
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London is conventionally seen as merely a combination of the financial centre in the City and the centre of governmental power in Westminster, a uniquely capitalist capital city. This book is about the third London - a social democratic twentieth-century metropolis, a pioneer in council housing, …
Artificial Islands
Adventures in the Dominions
Häftad, 2022
149 kr
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Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisiveposturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some ofits former colonial “kith and kin” across the seas? Why be in a Union with yourimmediate neighbours, when you could instead be …
Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs
Av Open House London, Owen Hatherley
Häftad, 2020
286 kr
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