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Ground Control : Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-first-century City by Minton, Anna is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ground Control : Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-first-century City about?
Britain's streets have been transformed by the construction of new property - but it's owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched over by CCTV. Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made us more fearful of each other? Anna Minton's acclaimed and passionate polemic, now updated to cover the UK property collapse and London's controversial Olympic Park, shows us the face of Britain today. It reveals the untested - and unwanted - urban planning that is changing not only our cities, but the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust. ** Review Anna Minton has done us a service with this book ... compelling -- Hugh Pearman The Sunday Times A sharp and urgent anaylsis of our changing towns and cities Metro A timely and powerful study ... revelatory Guardian Compelling ... raises important questions about the meaning of liberty in contemporary society and what we are prepared to defend today Times About the Author Anna Minton's writing has always highlighted complex subject areas which are vital to the way we live but are often overlooked. Ground Control eme
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- Author
- Minton, Anna
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241957806
- Category
- work of fiction