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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Hardcover Book)

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Hardcover Book)

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How to make a fairer, more just city

From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner cafés, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living under Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project.

This essay collection spans a period from immediately before the 2008 financial crash to the year of the pandemic. Against the business-as-usual responses to both crises, Owen Hatherley outlines a vision of the city as both a venue for political debate and dispute as well as a space of everyday experience, one that we shape as much as it shapes us.

Incorporated here are the genres of memoir, history, music and film criticism, as well as portraits of figures who have inspired new ways of looking at cities, such as the architect Zaha Hadid, the activist and urbanist Jane Jacobs, and thinkers such as Mark Fisher and Adam Curtis. Throughout these pieces, Hatherley argues that the only way out of our difficult circumstances is to imagine and try to construct a better modernity.

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The genres of "Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Hardcover Book)" are Architecture - Urban & Land Use Planning, Political Science - Commentary & Opinion, and Political Science - Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development.

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The writer of "Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Hardcover Book)" is Owen Hatherley.