Review
Anna Minton has done us a service with this book . . . compelling (
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 )
Review
'A sharp and urgent anaylsis of our changing towns and cities.'
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edition.
Review
'A timely and powerful study . . . revelatory'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Review
'Compelling . . . raises important questions about the meaning of liberty in contemporary society and what we are prepared to defend today'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Book Description
'Anna Minton has done us a service with this book . . . compelling'
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edition.
The New Statesman
'Ground Control is a book that needs to be read'
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edition.
Financial Times
'A wonderful, timely analysis'
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edition.
The Telegraph
'Minton is a brilliant journalist ... this is a vital book ... people will remember it and refer to it as an urgent corrective to the counterproductive control freakery of our times, and in advocating a continental approach to city life'
The Telegraph
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edition.
Product Description
-Now with a new chapter on the true Olympic legacy, and the UK property collapse
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.
About the Author
Anna Minton is the recipient of five national journalism awards.
She was former staff writer for the
Financial Times and writes regularly for the
Guardian. Anna is the author of The Joseph Rowntree Foundation Viewpoint on fear and distrust and is a member of the writers' panel for The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
