Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism

di Owen Hatherley (Autore)

Verso Books, 2021

From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. Combining memoir, history, portraits of particular places and things, Hatherley argues for those who have tried to create and imagine a better modernity, both in terms of architecture, such as Zaha Hadid or Ian Nairn, in terms of the urban space, like Jane Jacobs or Marshall Berman, and the way we see the world more widely, like Mark Fisher or Adam Curtis. Together, these outline a vision of the city as both as a place of political argument and dispute, and as a space of everyday experience, one that we shape as much as it shapes us.

• Autore: Owen Hatherley
• Editore: Verso Books
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 140 mm
• Peso: 423 gr.
• EAN: 9781839762215

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