Trans-Europe Express Tours of a Lost Continent

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.

ISBN:	9780141991573
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Published date:	05 Sep 2019
DEWEY:	720.94
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	427
Weight:	324g
Height:	128mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	26mm

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