Ground Control: Fear And Happiness In The Twenty-First-Century City

by Anna Minton

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Ground Control: Fear And Happiness In The Twenty-First-Century City

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-Now with a new chapter on the true Olympic legacy, and the UK property collapseBritain'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.