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A journey through ruins : the last days of London / Patrick Wright.
- Title
- A journey through ruins : the last days of London / Patrick Wright.
- Author
- Wright, Patrick
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DA684.25 .W75 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 397 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to live through the Thatcher years. -- Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- New ed.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-383) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I. The Undemolished World of Dalston Lane. 1. Street-Corner Vision --- 2. Around the World in Three Hundred YardsAll Cats are Grey by NightDown in the DirtDalston Lane Becomes a Downland TrackBrideshead and the Tower BlocksBrideshead RelocatedAbysmal HeightsRodinsky's PlaceAn Unexpected ReprieveScenes from the Privatized CityThe London Bus Queue Falls ApartThe Vandalized Telephone BoxThe Man with a Metal DetectorDrinking Water in a Toxic StateTales of ConversionThe Park that Lost its NameRemembering London's WarThe Bow Quarter: Six Hundred and Seventy Luxury Flats in an Old Victorian Hell-HouseVisions of the New DawnExcellence: From Fifth Avenue to Hackney Town HallRefounding the City with Prince Charles Afterwards ... Down Among the GentrifiersA Night to RememberDon Giovanni (and Business Planning) Come to the Hackney EmpireSiraj Izhar's public.
- ISBN
- 9780199541942
- LCCN
- ^^2008943418
- OCLC
- 244416779
- SCSB-10958840
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library