{"product_id":"a-new-kind-of-bleak-isbn-9781781680759","title":"A New Kind of Bleak","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eA New Kind of Bleak\u003c\/i\u003e anatomizes “broken Britain,” Hatherley also looks to a hopeful future and discovers fragments of what it might look like.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated by Laura Oldfield Ford, author and artist of \u003ci\u003eSavage Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e.“A humanely barbed Nikolaus Pevsner for our times ... This book should be required reading for planners, developers and architects.”—\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hatherley has busily constructed a cult reputation as the angry young man of architectural criticism.”—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Engaging, fearless and startlingly intelligent polemicist.”—\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood start to boil when they hear the word ‘regeneration.’”—Hari Kunzru\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—Jonathan Meades\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fierce and original.”—Andy Beckett, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He writes with venom and flare ... [It is] refreshing to see politics reintroduced to the architectural debate.”—Edwin Heathcote, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] bracing antidote to the faux-chumminess of so much British cultural discourse.”—Sukhdev Sandhu, \u003ci\u003eIcon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A timely counterpoint to Britain’s jubilee and Olympics self-congratulation ... observed with a precision and fury to force you to open your eyes.”—\u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eOwen Hatherley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eMilitant Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, a defense of the modernist movement, and \u003ci\u003eA Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes regularly on the political aesthetics of architecture, urbanism and popular culture for a variety of publications, including \u003ci\u003eBuilding Design\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e. He blogs on political aesthetics at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com\/\"\u003enastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com\u003c\/a\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303264866533,"sku":"NP9781781680759","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781680759.jpg?v=1767720676","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-new-kind-of-bleak-isbn-9781781680759","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}