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.
| ISBN: | 9781781680759 |
| Publication date: | 8th April 2013 |
| Author: | Owen Hatherley |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 434 pages |
| Genres: |
City and town planning: architectural aspects Cultural studies Urban and municipal planning and policy Politics and government |