London
Bread and Circuses
Seiten
2003
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-85984-464-9 (ISBN)
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-85984-464-9 (ISBN)
This illustrated guide to the changing architecture of London argues that new developments are a deliberate distraction from the city's economic and political problems.
Bread and circuses-free food and mass entertainment-was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the common people happy and rebellion-free. Jonathan Glancey, in this personal and passionate essay about the city he loves, suggests that the same unformulated policy is the means by which modern London's citizens are kept as apolitical and passively pleasure-loving as possible. But shops, restaurants and a few gorgeous buildings are, he maintains, a poor substitute for a creaking infrastructure, and London's cachet as a boisterously creative but well-run city will plummet if private vice is allowed to triumph over public virtue.
Bread and circuses-free food and mass entertainment-was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the common people happy and rebellion-free. Jonathan Glancey, in this personal and passionate essay about the city he loves, suggests that the same unformulated policy is the means by which modern London's citizens are kept as apolitical and passively pleasure-loving as possible. But shops, restaurants and a few gorgeous buildings are, he maintains, a poor substitute for a creaking infrastructure, and London's cachet as a boisterously creative but well-run city will plummet if private vice is allowed to triumph over public virtue.
Jonathan Glancey is Architecture and Design Editor of the Guardian, a position he previously held at the Independent. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, his previous books include New British Architecture, Twentieth Century Architecture and The Story of Architecture.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.12.2003 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 132 x 185 mm |
Gewicht | 242 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 1-85984-464-2 / 1859844642 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-85984-464-9 / 9781859844649 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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