Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
Book formats
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Owen Hatherley
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- english
- Release date
- September 5, 2019
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-199157-3
- GTIN
- 9780141991573
- Weight, g
- 326
About
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.