Trans-Europe Express : Tours of a Lost Continent

Author(s): Hatherley, Owen,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/09/2019,
Pagination: 448 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc,
Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 26
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780141991573

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Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, 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-centred, 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.