Where We Live - Jonathan Glancey

Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis. It has, in fact, been in the grip of a housing crisis since the Industrial Revolution, when the population soared and people crammed into towns and cities in search of work. What followed is a tale of suburbia, green belts and, since the 1980s, the increasingly common sight of mass-produced and near identical housing across the land. This book argues that British house building over the centuries has been an art. An art of which we can be proud and an art... Zobrazit více