A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. Owen Hatherley

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      Praise for A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

      ‘An excellent vade-mecum for the disgruntled urban flaneur.’ Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year

      ‘An exhilarating book. Owen Hatherley brings to bear a quizzing eye, venomous wit, supple prose, refusal to curry favour, rejection of received ideas, exhaustive knowledge and all-round bolshiness. This book is as much a marker for an era as English Journey and Outrage were.’ Jonathan Meades

      ‘The latest heir to Ruskin … Hatherley blasts the architectural style of New Labour Britain. Whatever your pet-hate, Hatherley will probably have some enjoyably cruel words for it.’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent

      ‘Compendious, erudite and witty … a man to watch.’ Ken Worpole, openDemocracy.net

      ‘Witty, occasionally bleak but immensely readable.’ Architects’ Journal

      ‘This is an important book that is entirely worthy of the arguments it sets out to provoke.’ Patrick Wright, Architecture Today

      ‘Owen Hatherley is a fulminating critic-cum-flaneur … This is fear and loathing in Lost Albion riffed by a quainter version of Hunter S. Thompson.’ Jay Merrick, Independent

      ‘A gem of a book.’ Kevin Orr, Socialist Review

      ‘Wonderfully provocative … Intensely passionate and bitter (I was reminded at times of the thunderous laments of the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle) … Hatherley’s book is terrifying in its exposure of the human cost of the mistakes that have been made.’ Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph

      ‘Hatherley is a formidable new voice … this surgical evisceration of the cityscapes of Blairism is required reading.’ Hugh Pearman, RIBA Journal

      ‘This is the real Britain, and Hatherley is the most informed, opinionated and acerbic guide you could wish for.’ Hugh Pearman, Sunday Times

      ‘Painted with a raging energy that is exhilarating ... [It’s] political, sinister, sometimes funny.’ Morning Star

      ‘Hatherley deserves to be widely read … he has brought a welcome freshness and honesty to architectural criticism.” Chris Hall, Icon

      ‘In this angry, fiercely funny book, Owen Hatherley steps forward as the Pevsner of the PFI generation, an erudite, urbane guide to the Ballardian wreckage of millennial Britain. Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood start to boil when they hear the word “regeneration.” ’ Hari Kunzru

      OWEN HATHERLEY is the author of the acclaimed Militant Modernism, a defence of the modernist movement. He writes on architecture, urbanism and popular culture for Building Design, Frieze, the Guardian and New Statesman. He blogs on political aesthetics at nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com. He lives in London.

      A GUIDE TO THE

      NEW RUINS OF

      GREAT BRITAIN

      OWEN HATHERLEY

      London • New York

      Trumpets around the walls of the Barbican. Trumpets turning into penny whistles and then, reflected in the new shining glass, suddenly and surprisingly accompanied by a respectful and celebratory choir. —Raymond Williams

      This paperback edition first published by Verso 2011

      First published by Verso 2010

      © Owen Hatherley 2010

      All rights reserved

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted

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      eISBN: 978-1-84467-808-2

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Typeset by MJ Gavan, Truro, Cornwall

      Printed by Scandbook AB in Sweden

      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

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