Ground Control
Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city
Allen Lane
ePub eBook
: 26 Jan 2012
£7.99
Synopsis
Britain's streets have been transformed by the construction of new property - but it's owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched over by CCTV. Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other?
Anna Minton's acclaimed and passionate polemic, now updated to cover the UK property collapse and London's controversial Olympic Park, shows us the face of Britain today. It reveals the untested - and unwanted - urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust.
Product details
Format :
ePub eBook
ISBN: 9780241957806
Pages : 288
Published : 26 Jan 2012
Publisher : Allen Lane
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Ground Control
Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city
£7.99
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