Trans-Europe Express by Owen Hatherley

Trans-Europe Express by Owen Hatherley

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 combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere. In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it.

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 humanityHe is a writer of lasting merit who will be read fifty years from now. -- Anna Minton
The latest heir to Ruskin. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *

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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ISBN 13	9780141991573
ISBN 10	0141991577
Title	Trans-Europe Express
Author	Owen Hatherley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2019-09-05
Number of pages	448
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