Trans-Europe Express : Tours of a Lost Continent
Overview
Over the past 20 years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centers, 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-centered, 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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780141991573
- ISBN-10: 0141991577
- Publisher: Penguin Group
- Publish Date: March 2020
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 448
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