Trans-Europe Express
Tours of a Lost Continent
$29.24
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2019
Summary
A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities.
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. Interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, these cities possess a combination of order and pleasure that is exceptionally unusual elsewhere.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141991573 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141991577 |
| Author: | Owen Hatherley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
The latest heir to Ruskin. - Boyd Tonkin - Independent
A scathing, lively and timely look at the “European city”, from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today – Owen Jones
The best book I’ve read on Europe, blending history, architecture and contemporary politics and written in Owen Hatherley’s trademark mixture of scepticism, erudition and humanity. He is a writer of lasting merit who will be read fifty years from now. – Anna Minton
The latest heir to Ruskin. – Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
About The Author
Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for the Architectural Review, The Calvert Journal, Dezeen, the Guardian, Jacobin and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books, most recently Landscapes of Communism, The Ministry of Nostalgia and The Chaplin Machine.
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