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This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in London's tall-building boom, it develops a critique of the construction of more and more speculative towers as well as a critique of the claim that these buildings ruin the historic cityscape. Gassner argues that the new London skyline needs to be ruined instead and explores ruination as a political appropriation of the commodified and financialised cityscape. Aimed at academics and students ...

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    • Title: Ruined Skylines by Günter Gassner
    • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    • Print ISBN: 9781138094796, 113809479X
    • eText ISBN: 9781351602518
    • Edition: 2019 1st edition
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