Clean living under difficult circumstances : finding a home in the ruins of modernism / Owen Hatherley.
Publisher: London : New York : Verso, 2021Description: 321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 21896683ISBN: 9781839762215Subject(s): City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain | Housing -- Great Britain | Sound -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain | Socialism -- Great BritainAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Clean living under difficult circumstancesDDC classification: 307.1/2160941 LOC classification: HT169.G7 | H386 2021Summary: "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.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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How to make a fairer, more just city
From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner cafés, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project.
This essay collection spans a period from immediately before the 2008 financial crash to the year of the pandemic. Against the business-as-usual responses to both crises, Owen Hatherley outlines a vision of the city as both a venue for political debate and dispute as well as a space of everyday experience, one that we shape as much as it shapes us.
Incorporated here are the genres of memoir, history, music and film criticism, as well as portraits of figures who have inspired new ways of looking at cities, such as the architect Zaha Hadid, the activist and urbanist Jane Jacobs, and thinkers such as Mark Fisher and Adam Curtis. Throughout these pieces, Hatherley argues that the only way out of our difficult circumstances is to imagine and try to construct a better modernity.
"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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: Two Thousand and Five (p. 1)
- 1 Soundscapes (p. 15)
- Want to Buy Some Illusions? (p. 17)
- Hurrah for the Black Box Recorder (p. 23)
- From Revolution to Revelation: The Politics of the Pet Shop Boys (p. 26)
- Dancing to Numbers (p. 29)
- 2 The Island (p. 33)
- The New and Closed Libraries of Britain (p. 35)
- Edinburgh's Golden Turds (p. 41)
- False Landscape Syndrome: The Poetry and Propaganda of Andrew Jordan (p. 51)
- The Shop Signs of Walthamstow High Street (p. 73)
- 3 Elsewhere (p. 79)
- Arab Villages (p. 81)
- Socialism and Nationalism on the Danube (p. 98)
- Fragments of German Expressionism (p. 133)
- My Kind of Town - Warszawa (p. 161)
- 4 Spaces (p. 165)
- A High-Performance Contemporary Life Process (p. 167)
- Strange, Angry Objects (p. 191)
- Jane Jacobs Says No (p. 221)
- The Socialist Lavatory League (p. 244)
- 5 Screens (p. 255)
- Decadent Action: Vera Chytilová's Daisies (p. 257)
- The Petroleum Sublime (p. 261)
- And Then the Strangest Thing Happenedé (p. 267)
- From Boring Dystopia to Acid Communism (p. 278)
- Acknowledgements (p. 319)
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