Main entry:

Hatherley, Owen, author.

Title & Author:

Clean living under difficult circumstances : finding a home in the ruins of modernism / Owen Hatherley.

Publication:

London : New York : Verso, 2021.

Description:

321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Soundscapes -- Want to Buy Some Illusions? -- Hurrah for the Black Box Recorder -- From Revolution to Revelation: The Politics of the Pet Shop Boys -- Dancing to Numbers -- 2. The Island -- The New and Closed Libraries of Britain -- Edinburgh's Golden Turds -- False Landscape Syndrome: The Poetry and Propaganda of Andrew Jordan -- The Shop Signs of Walthamstow High Street -- 3. Elsewhere -- Arab Villages -- Socialism and Nationalism on the Danube -- Fragments of German Expressionism -- My Kind of Town -- Warszawa -- 4. Spaces -- A High-Performance Contemporary Life Process -- Strange, Angry Objects -- Jane Jacobs Says No -- The Socialist Lavatory League -- 5. Screens -- Decadent Action: Vera Chytilova's Daisies -- The Petroleum Sublime -- And Then the Strangest Thing Happened -- From Boring Dystopia to Acid Communism.

Summary:

"In this essay collection, essayist and author Owen Hatherley outlines a vision of the modern city as both a venue for political debate and a space for everyday experience - the city as a socialist project"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781839762215 (hardback)
1839762217
(US ebk)
9781839762246
(UK ebk)
9781839762239

Subject:

City planning Environmental aspects Great Britain.
Housing Great Britain.
Sound Environmental aspects Great Britain.
Socialism Great Britain.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Housing.
Socialism.
Sound Environmental aspects.
Great Britain.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310090
Call No.: BIB 255217
Status: Available