A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain

Abstract

What happens when ruination overtakes regeneration? Following on from A Guide to New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley investigates fate of British cities in desolate new world of savage public-sector cuts, when government funds are withdrawn and Welfare State abdicates. He explores urban consequences of what Conservatives privately call progressive nonsense of Big Society and the localism agenda, putative replacement of state with charity and voluntarism; and he casts an eye over last great Blairite schemes limping to completion, from London's Shard to site of 2012 Olympics. Crisscrossing Britain from Aberdeen to Plymouth, from Croydon to Belfast, A New Kind of Bleak finds a landscape left to rot - and discovers strange and potentially radical things growing in wasteland.

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