Description
| Product ID: | 9780141991573 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Trans-Europe Express |
| Subtitle: | Tours of a Lost Continent |
| Authors: | Author: Owen Hatherley |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, Landscape architecture and design, Urban communities, Human geography, Regional geography, Travel writing, Landscape art & architecture, Urban communities, Human geography, Regional geography, Travel writing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-09-05 |
