Introduction : will there still be building, in the dark times?
The Thames gateway : one of the dark places of the earth
Teeside : infantilized hercules
Preston : nothing great but man
Barrow-in-Furness : diving for pearls
The metropolitan county of the West Midlands : the patchwork explains, the land is unchanged
Bristol : the tyranny of structurelessness
Brighton and Hove : on parade
Croydon : zone 5 strategy
Plymouth : fables of the reconstruction
Oxford : Quadrangle and Banlieue
Leicester : another middle England
Lincoln : between two cathedrals
The valleys : I am a pioneer, they cAll me primitive
Edinburgh : capital (it fails us now)
Aberdeen : where the money went
From Govan to Cumbernauld: was the solution worse than the problem?
Belfast : we are not going away
The City of London : the beginning is nigh.
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A new kind of bleak : journeys through urban Britain by Owen Hatherley. ISBN 9781844678570. Published by Verso in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
