A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain

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• Introduction: Will There Still Be Building, in the Dark Times? (p. xi)
• The Thames Gateway: One of the Dark Places of the Earth (p. 1)
• Teesside: Infantilized Hercules (p. 37)
• Preston: Nothing Great but Man (p. 59)
• Barrow-In-Furness: Diving for Pearls (p. 81)
• The Metropolitan Country of the West Midlands: The Patchwork Explains, the Land Is Unchanged (p. 91)
• Briston: The Tyranny of Structurelessness (p. 133)
• Brighton and Hove: On Parade (p. 149)
• Croydon: Zone 5 Strategy (p. 163)
• Plymouth: Fables of the Reconstruction (p. 177)
• Oxford: Quadrangle and Banlieue (p. 191)
• Leicester: Another Middle England (p. 209)
• Lincoln: Between Two Cathedrals (p. 225)
• The Vallelys: I Am a Pioneer, They Call Me Primitive (p. 235)
• Edinburgh: Capital (It Fails Us Now) (p. 249)
• Aberdeen: Where the Money Went (p. 273)
• From Govan to Cumbernauld: Was the Solution Worse than the Problem? (p. 285)
• Belfast: We are not Going Away (p. 311)
• The City of London: The Beginning is Nigh (p. 333)
• Acknowledgements (p. 363)
• Notes (p. 365)
• Index (p. 367)
• Index of Places (p. 377)