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Uncommon Owen Hatherley 9781846948770
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781846941764
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54"Militant Modernism" argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781917991322
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption... -
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley
Booksplease Price: $44.84In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a 'make do and mend' aesthetic to the growing... -
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley
Booksplease Price: $68.94Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the... -
Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions Owen Hatherley 9781914420863
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive posturing. But what if the island's future lies in another Union altogether, with some of its former colonial... -
Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer by Owen Hatherley 9780241701850
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $63.50The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture returns in a beautiful new editionModernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived... -
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the... -
Red Metropolis: An Essay on the Government of London by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84London is conventionally seen as merely a combination of the financial centre in the City and the centre of governmental power in Westminster, a uniquely capitalist capital city. This book is about... -
The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs: 2020 by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916016910Author Owen HatherleyFormat PaperbackImprint Open CityPublisher Open City -
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Over 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... -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $9.81Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.22In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that... -
Across the Plaza: The Public Voids of the Post Soviet City by Owen Hatherley 9780992914622
Booksplease Price: $13.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992914622Author Owen HatherleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Strelka PressPublisher Strelka... -
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism by Owen Hatherley 9781839762215
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.56From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet,... -
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley 9780141989778
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.20'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers' Guardian Britain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central... -
Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC by Owen Hatherley 9781915672445
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future. In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing... -
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century Owen Hatherley 9780241378205
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $56.53A momentous history of the 1930s emigre generation, and how they reshaped BritainAs the horrors of fascism ran riot through Europe in the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans, most of them... -
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in... -
Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.11Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of... -
Nairn's Towns by Ian Nairn 9781907903816
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.23A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: "These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 Jonathan Meades 9781800181427
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.88'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . ... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades 9781783529506
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.83'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . ... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald 9780571362219
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.06'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times'Like Jon Ronson on town planners . . . Endlessly funny and... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow Des Fitzgerald 9780571362226
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks.So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future... -
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism Barnabas Calder 9781529156089
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARBeginning in a tiny hermitage on the remote north Scottish coast, and ending up backstage at the National Theatre, Raw Concrete embarks on a wide-ranging journey through... -
Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era 9781839761331
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.88British politics is in an extraordinary place. Grace Blakeley introduces an indispensable collection of analysis and comment.In Futures of Socialism, Sam Gindin and James Meadway reassess socialist... -
Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox 9780008257163
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 'The definitive grime biography' NME ... -
Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox 9780008257132
Booksplease Price: $15.98A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 'The definitive grime biography' NME ... -
Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for... -
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world... -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is... -
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.30THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of... -
The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City by Jonathan Charley 9780367517762
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary... -
A Home of One's Own by Hashi Mohamed
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96As cities expand and rents rise, what does it really mean to have a home? 'A marvel, by an inspiring and deeply humane writer' - Philippe Sands A home is important because it offers sanctuary... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.99Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the... -
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain by Hashi Mohamed
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73A New Statesman Book of the Year AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country.' David... -
Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $37.55Stunning photographs of Soviet Metro Stations from across the former states of the USSR and Russia itself, many of which have never previously been documented For us, said Nikita Khrushchev in his... -
Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide by Nathaniel Flakin
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.31'Inspirational - with a deliciously bone-dry Berlinische humour' - Owen Hatherley Few European cities can boast a history as storied and tumultuous as that of Berlin. For more than 150 years it...