Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent

By Owen Hatherley

Book Overview

Over the past 20 years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centers, 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-centered, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141991577
• ISBN13: 9780141991573
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.7"