
London: Bread And Circuses
For all its inventiveness, however, it is now also a city unable to provide its citizens with decent public transport, housing or services, beset and betrayed by governments who take from it but refuse to give back. In the lead-up to the much-hyped Millennium, a fortune was spent on lavish building projects – giant wheels, great courts, titanic art galleries, ambitious museums, a Brobdingnagian do...
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Verso (December 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859846459
ISBN-13: 978-1859846452
Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 0.1 x 0.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 14672379
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“Don't waste your time. The author is a straight-up socialist, and the entire book is a tapestry of whining about how our cities can't be perfected 'until we learn to convert our aggressively mercantile economy into a true social economy' blah blah bl...”
e – but little in the way of public services, intelligent urban planning and infrastructure except by default. Has the right kind of money been spent on the wrong sort of projects? Who, in this pluralistic age, will cut through the layers of bureaucracy to restore some of the city’s unruly splendor? In this elegant and polemical book, the architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explores London’s Millennial follies and asks how and where London might now channel its energies. Combining anecdote and analysis with a sustained critique of the way the city is governed and financed, he draws a detailed picture of the state London’s in and speculates on how it might be transformed.
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