Ground Control
Anna Minton
  • Published: 30 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241957806
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Ground Control

Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city

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30 Jan 2012
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25 Jan 2012
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'Anna Minton has put her finger on one of the most profound and disturbing shifts in modern British cities', Evening Standard

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.
  • Published: 30 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241957806
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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Praise for Ground Control

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
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