Ground Control
Author: Minton, Anna
ISBN: 9780241960905
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 25 Jan 2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
'Anna Minton has put her finger on one of the most profound and disturbing shifts in modern British cities', Evening Standard
-Now with a new chapter on the true Olympic legacy, and the UK property collapse
Britain's streets have been transformed by the construction of new property - but it's owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched over by CCTV. Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other?
Anna Minton's acclaimed and passionate polemic, now updated to cover the UK property collapse and London's controversial Olympic Park, shows us the face of Britain today. It reveals the untested - and unwanted - urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust.
ISBN: 9780241960905
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 25 Jan 2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
'Anna Minton has put her finger on one of the most profound and disturbing shifts in modern British cities', Evening Standard
-Now with a new chapter on the true Olympic legacy, and the UK property collapse
Britain's streets have been transformed by the construction of new property - but it's owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched over by CCTV. Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other?
Anna Minton's acclaimed and passionate polemic, now updated to cover the UK property collapse and London's controversial Olympic Park, shows us the face of Britain today. It reveals the untested - and unwanted - urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust.
