London From Punk to Blair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London From Punk to Blair write by Joe Kerr. This book was released on 2013-06-01. London From Punk to Blair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. London from Punk to Blair is a rich portrait of Europe’s foremost capital. An array of contributors, including poets, journalists, teachers, historians, wanderers, drinkers, photographers, and foodies, offer a selection of personal and subjective readings of the city since the late ’70s. These essays chart a variety of literal and metaphorical explorations through modern and postmodern London, showing how it works, and how it fails to work; what makes it vibrant, and what makes it seedy. From West End galleries to strip pubs in Shoreditch; from millionaires’ loft apartments to buses and suburban Tube stops; from film, fashion, and gay clubs to punk bands, ruinous factories, pigeon filth, and the vagaries of weather, London from Punk to Blair embraces the city like no other book has before. This revised edition includes a new introduction by editor Joe Kerr that brings the book up to date and gives the essays context for the post-recession world. “Full of insight into the diverse experiences that constitute the recent history of London.”—Architects’ Journal “This rewarding collection brings into clear focus those dramatic shifts in the fortunes of the metropolis. . . . Beautiful, revealing insights into particular ways of understanding and using the city.”—London Society Journal
London from Punk to Blair
London from Punk to Blair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London from Punk to Blair write by Joe Kerr. This book was released on 2003. London from Punk to Blair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based upon an exploration of essays, maps, journeys, pictures, narratives and signs the editors have compiled an overview of London from the mid-70s through to the days of the Blair administration.
Remaking London
Remaking London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remaking London write by Ben Campkin. This book was released on 2013-08-13. Remaking London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the slum clearances of the early twentieth century and debates about the post-Olympic city, the drive to 'regenerate' London has intensified. Yet today, with a focus on increasing land values, regeneration schemes purporting to foster diverse and creative new neighbourhoods typically displace precisely the qualities, activities and communities they claim to support. In Remaking London Ben Campkin provides a lucid and stimulating historical account of urban regeneration, exploring how decline and renewal have been imagined and realised at different scales. Focussing on present-day regeneration areas that have been key to the capital's modern identity, Campkin explores how these places have been stigmatised through identification with material degradation, and spatial and social disorder. Drawing on diverse sources - including journalism, photography, cinema, theatre, architectural design, advertising and television - he illuminates how ideas of decline drive urban change.
Reading London's Suburbs
Reading London's Suburbs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading London's Suburbs write by G. Pope. This book was released on 2015-12-17. Reading London's Suburbs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.
Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature
Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature write by Laura Colombino. This book was released on 2013-06-19. Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the architectural landscape and the body enter into relation with each other. Colombino visits the city in connection with its boundaries, abstract spaces and natural microcosms, as they stand in for all the conflicting realms of identity; its interstices and ruins are seen as inhabited by bodies that reproduce internally the external conditions of political and social struggle. The study brings into focus the fiction in which London provides not a residual interest but a strong psychic-phenomenological grounding, and where the awareness of the physical reality of buildings and landscape conditions shape the concept of the subject traversing this space. Authors such as J. G. Ballard, Geoff Dyer, Michael Moorcock, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair, Geoff Ryman, Tom McCarthy, Michael Bracewell and Zadie Smith are considered in order to map the relationship of body, architecture and spatial politics in contemporary creative prose on the city. Through readings that are consistently informed by recent developments in urban studies and reflections formulated by architects, sociologists, anthropologists and art critics, this book offers a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of literary urban studies.
