Artificial Islands
Adventures in the Dominions
$39.98
- Paperback
345 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
Winner of Architectural Book of the Year 2023.
Should Britain form a new union with its old ‘Dominions’ in Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Are they really our closest allies and relations? And is there any reason why they should want to unite again with us?
Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter argument and divisive posturing. But what if the island’s future lies in another Union altogether, with some of its former colonial “kith and kin” across the s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781914420863 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1914420861 |
| Author: | Owen Hatherley |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 345 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm |
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“A rich clich
“A rich cliché-busting book, a model of how to think critically about empire and its contemporary relevance.” - David Edgerton, author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
“Hatherley carries the narrative with an opinionated and entertaining style.” — Rob Greer, The Idler
“Hatherley’s accounts of walking Dominion cities display the intuitive feel for place, epigrammatic flair and caustic impatience for cant which make him a successor to the great urban explorers.” —
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About The Author
Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for, among others, the Architectural Review, the Calvert Journal, Dezeen, the Guardian, Jacobin, the London Review of Books and New Humanist. He is the author of several books, most recently The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space (Repeater, 2018), Red Metropolis (Repeater, 2020)
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