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Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-century Britain
Sam Wetherell's landmark study of the built environment
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-century Britain
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-century Britain
by Sam Wetherell
(Princeton University Press, £30)
CITY planning may seem a distant and theoretical topic and it often presents itself thus to stay aloof from the masses. But this book is the opposite — compelling and lucid, extremely readable and persuasive, each page is a revelation.
In the face of conditions that render people helpless, it provides a convincing narrative, a rich historical context and suggests grounds for new thinking and action.
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