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A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London
A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants tra...more
Paperback, 397 pages
Published
February 26th 2009
by Oxford University Press, USA
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Candy Wood
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First published in 1991, this 2009 edition has a new introduction and some added chapters but is otherwise not updated, so it provides an interesting picture of parts of the East End just as the 1980s property boom was collapsing. The book isn't so much a developed argument as a loose collection of opinions and ironies. Wright would like derelict old mansions and churches to be preserved, but not in the National Trust model; he attacks projects like the Spitalfields Trust for focusing more on ar...more
Rachel Stevenson
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Like Iain Sinclair, but with more elegant sentences and less Bill Drummond.
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