Trans-Europe Express : tours of a lost continent
Hatherley, Owen2019
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This is 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 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.
Main title:
Trans-Europe Express : tours of a lost continent / Owen Hatherley.
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Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
427 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780141991573 (pbk)
Dewey class:
720.9'4720.94
Language:
English
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BRN:
2809707
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