Main entry:

Nairn, Ian, author.

Title & Author:

Nairn's towns / Ian Nairn ; edited, updated and introduced by Owen Hatherley.

Publication:

London : Notting Hill Editions, 2013

Description:

xxiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
Originally published as: Britain's changing towns, 1967.
Birmingham -- Superlative Newcastle-upon-Tyne -- Canterbury, the happy city -- Patrician Manchester -- Glasgow and Cumbernauld New Town -- Llanidloes, the pocket metropolis -- Exciting possibilities of modern Sheffield -- Friendly Plymouth -- The borough of St. Marylebone -- The wise city of Chester -- Proud Derry -- Brighton, model for affluence -- Cardiff, the Welsh enigma -- Liverpool, world city -- Norwich, regional capital -- The burghs of Fife.

Summary:

"A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967) introduced and updated by Owen Hatherley. In the sixteen essays in this collection Nairn writes with passionate specificity about "Patrician Manchester," "Friendly Plymouth," "Proud Derry" and "The Burghs of Fife" and demonstrates his competence in writing about cities and towns "as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings." Described by Owen Hatherley in his introduction as "arguably the finest, and one of the best known English architectural writers of the 20th century," Ian Nairn has become a cult figure, with his books Nairn's London and Nairn's Towns reissued after decades out of print"--Amazon WWW site.

ISBN:

190790381X
9781907903816

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Hatherley, Owen, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298656
Call No.: BIB 244788
Status: Available