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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.
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Trans-Europe Express : Tours of a Lost Continent, Owen Hatherley
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- Released
- 2019
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Trans-Europe Express : Tours of a Lost Continent
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Owen Hatherley
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141991577
- ISBN13
- 9780141991573
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Maps & Travel, Travel, Political Science & Politics, Architecture, Architecture & Urbanism, Politics, Gifts for grandpa, Cities, Urbanism, Urbanization
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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.