Owen Hatherley

Across the Plaza: the Public Voids of the Post-Soviet City

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Owen Hatherley is a freelance writer on political aesthetics, based in south-east London. He is the author of four books, Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon, an essay on the British pop group Pulp (Zero 2011) and A New Kind of Bleak (Verso, 2012). He received his PhD for a thesis on Americanism in the Weimar Republic and the early USSR in 2011.
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96 printed pages
Original publication
2012
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  • peolrinahas quoted3 years ago
    allegedly unused and unusable (or more to the point, non-profit-making) space
  • Jan Nohas quoted4 years ago
    many remain ambiguous spaces, spaces nobody is quite sure what to do with. Contestable spaces
  • Jan Nohas quoted4 years ago
    the dreamlike ambience of these spaces provides an attraction that is a counter to the chaotic pile-up of the capitalist streetscape.

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