Nairn's Towns
by Ian Nairn, Owen Hatherley
Description
Ian Nairn (1930-1983) made his name with a special issue of hte Architectural Review in which he coined the term 'Subtopia' for the areas around cities that had been failed by urban planning. He was largely responsible for the volumes on Surrey and Sussex in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England series, and published two guidebooks, Nairn's London (1966) and Nairn's Paris (1968), as well as presenting several BBC television series. His work has influenced writers as diverse as J. G. Ballard, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Patrick Wright.
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World; Eng
Endorsements
"These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several things happening at once - assessments of historic townscape, capsule reviews of new buildings, attempts to find the specific character of each place...".
'[Nairn's Towns] should be kept in the glove-box of every car...' - Standpoint Magazine
Author Biography
Owen Hatherley is the author of the acclaimed Militant Modernism, a defence of the modernist movement, and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. He writes regularly for a variety of publications, including Building Design, Frieze, the Guardian and the New Statesman. He blogs on political aesthetics at nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Notting Hill Editions
- Publication Date October 2013
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781907903816
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 14.99 GBP
- Pages172
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions190x120 mm
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