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Trans-Europe Express: tours of a lost continent (2018)

Owen Hatherley (Author)

Allen Lane
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

ISBN: 9780141988320

Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 427

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Cross-cultural comparison Architecture Architecture and Society Urban planning Cities and towns 21st century Europe

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. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it. (Publisher)

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Review Robert Carr (2020) Review of "Trans-Europe Express: tours of a lost continent". International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology (pp. 135-137). unapi

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