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Nairn's towns
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- Book Synopsis
- A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley. These essays show Nairn writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several things happening at once - assessments of historic townscape, capsule reviews of new buildings, attempts to find the specific character of each place. Includes sixteen essays on places as varied as Glasgow and Norwich, Llanidloes and Sheffield, by the finest English architectural writer of the 20th Century.
- About The Author
- Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer who coined the term 'subtopia' for the areas around cities that had in his view been failed by urban planning, losing their individuality and spirit of place. In the 1960s he contributed to the volumes on Surrey and Sussex in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England series and published a number of his own books, including Nairn's Paris, Nairn's Towns and Modern Buildings in London, all published by Notting Hill Editions.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781907903816
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions, (07 September 2017)
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 298 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 190 x 120 x 20.4 mm
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