Author: HATHERLEY, OWEN
Title: Trans-Europe Express. Tours of a Lost Continent
Description: Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. Hardback. Pp: 224. A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its citiesOver 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. ISBN: 9780141988320. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780141988320
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Title: Trans-Europe Express. Tours of a Lost Continent
Description: Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. Hardback. Pp: 224. A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its citiesOver 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. ISBN: 9780141988320. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780141988320
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1809523
- Book number: 1809523
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