Owen Hatherley



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Articles: 2014

 * The left’s attempts to invoke a new progressive patriotism will end in tears - The Conservatives know that only they will benefit from drawing Labour into an argument about Britishness and ‘English votes for English laws’ - 24th September
 * England’s Dreaming introduced me to the power of urban, sprawling London - Owen Hatherley on England’s Dreaming by Jon Savage, the book that compelled him to move to London to seek out its ‘appalling and vertiginously exciting’ high-rises - 6th August
 * ‘Poor doors’ show why we can’t rely on developers for affordable housing - While the idea of mixed communities and mixed tenure was always faintly patronising, even not-so-affordable housing is now bitterly resisted - 30th July
 * How to make sense of the senseless 7/7 graffiti - The defacement of the London memorial was idiotic. But the task of commemorating tragedy in a way that really conveys its horror is no easy one - 9th July
 * How the spirit of revolution lives on in radical bookshops - The longevity of such institutions, typified by the continuing survival of Southampton's October Books, shows that they are more than museums of dead politics - 19th June
 * Antony Gormley's Mayfair metamorphosis - Fancy a night inside Gormley's head? His Beaumont hotel room/sculpture captures public art's evisceration by the private and plutocratic - 12th June
 * Buying a nice new house? You might end up voting Tory - It doesn't always follow that rich areas vote Conservative, but it would appear upwardly mobile individuals can expect to swing rightwards - 6th May 2014
 * London's skyline needs more tower blocks, not more luxury flats - The capital's new towers give to the private rental market something the public sector so desperately needs - 23rd April 2014
 * Electricity – isn't it wonderful? But we don't want to see where it's made - We know iconic power stations such as Fawley exist, yet, as with windfarms, we're revolted by them being near our homes - 4th April 2014
 * Here's what a real 'Marxist diatribe' about the UK housing market looks like - Unlike well-meaning UN rapporteurs, Friedrich Engels was convinced that capitalism could never solve a housing crisis - 5th February 2014
 * If we don't want to live in shoeboxes, we need to bring back housing standards - As our homes become ever smaller, it's time to revisit the type of minimum space requirements that were used in the 1960s - 7th January 2014



Articles: 2013

 * Spying claims suggest an obsessive order at Ikea's heart - Allegations that the company spied on French staff illustrate what happens if you calibrate a humane idea towards profit - 18th December 2013
 * Distaste for 'clone towns' comes too late to save Sheffield's cavern of weirdness - Castle Market has been closed. It seems councils only like non-chainstore spaces if they conform to a narrow model of middle-class individuality - 28th November 2013
 * London is a property developers' paradise. And ordinary people are being priced out - That we are heading for a crisis is not in doubt, but the huge rents on government's Build to Rent scheme are hardly going to help - 18th November 2013
 * The best response to gentrification is better council housing - In 1970s London, authorities worked with good local architects to redistribute wealth spatially. The same should be done now - 3rd October 2013
 * Preston bus station: a sublime choice for grade II listing - English Heritage had tried before to have the brutalist building listed. Luckily, commercial lobbying didn't get in the way this time - 24th September 2013
 * How Marshall Berman reclaimed modernity for Marxists - The Bronx-born writer who died last week saw the danger of leaving decisions about public spaces to the technocrats - 17th September 2013
 * How capitalism has changed our language - Capitalism is altering our language – and Raymond Williams saw it coming more than 50 years ago - 12th August 2013
 * Plans to recreate the Crystal Palace are as jingoistic as a Gove history lesson - Rebuilding monuments of the past fails to meet the challenge of building for today's London, and today's Londoners - 29th July 2013
 * Pop-ups are papering over our crumbling social structures - Look – a burger bar in a former Asian woman's advice centre! The decay of social provision is given an offensive spin - 28th June
 * Derry has built bridges – but its industry won't come back - The first UK city of culture has dealt well with its divides, but three art shows reveal where the real tensions lie - 21st June 2013
 * How Sweden's innovative housing programme fell foul of privatisation - Stockholm's riots happened in the outskirts of the city, with the poor having been driven out of the centre by rising prices - 16th June 2013
 * When culture is treated as commodity, no wonder its temples are sold off - From Baltic to the Lowry, grand building projects invigorated provincial life, but the attitude is: if it doesn't pay, why bother? - 22nd May 2013
 * Prince Charles is not a dabbler – he's deeply committed. But he's naive - His vision of architecture, as so much else, reflects a life of privilege and entitlement rather than the will of the people - 2nd May 2013
 * A terraced house for £1 or £250m – Britain's bizarre housing crisis - This grotesque juxtaposition of housing in Stoke and London perfectly reflects the imbalance inherent in our economy - 24th April 2013
 * How 'new London' developments are killing the river Thames - Riverside developers are attempting to sweep away anything that doesn't fit, including people living on affordable houseboats - 23rd April 2013
 * How Margaret Thatcher bulldozed over Britain's urban landscape - On her watch the architecture of our cities, and the lives lived within them, became more irrelevant than ever - 9th April 2013
 * Liverpool's rotting, shocking 'housing renewal': how did it come to this? - Social cleansing sold as 'Pathfinder' has left areas like Anfield in half-demolished limbo. Yet its champions won't back down - 28th March 2013
 * How Labour got lost in Eastleigh's unplanned sprawl - It's an affluent constituency, so why is the town so grim? The story goes back to the rejection of Solent City in the Wilson era - 27th February 2013
 * Boris Johnson has run London like a twee nostalgia theme park - The mayor's failed cable car scheme shows how he's prioritised corporate showpieces over much-needed urban development - 25th February 2013
 * Has the communist hammer and sickle had its day? - The French Communist party has dropped the symbol of workers and peasants that has become tainted by association - 12th February 2013
 * A tale of rape claims, abuses of power and the Socialist Workers party - The SWP prefers to talks about organisation rather than rape, and that protects its leaders not its members - 8th February 2013
 * Glasgow's welcome stand against the '21st-century square' - The plans for George Square were typical of a trend for turning public spaces into colder, barren places suited to commerce - 28th January 2013
 * Battersea, consumed by London's luxury linear city - As flats in the historic landmark go on sale, the capital loses one of the last buildings to defy the Thameside yuppiedromes - 12th january 2013



Articles: 2012

 * When the church turns into a pub - When old and sacred buildings are put to new uses, the 'respect' we show for them can lack in honesty - 27th December 2012
 * Brian Haw: an unlikely hero to set in stone - Peace campaigner Brian Haw stood against the establishment yet may now join its ranks as a statue in Parliament Square - 18th December 2012
 * Amsterdam's 'scum villages' show the illiberal new face of northern Europe - Northern Europe's social democratic parties are nearly as eviscerated, morally bankrupt and tired as New Labour - 8th December 2012
 * The architectural dreams that never came down to earth - A flying city … a dome over Manhattan … a 'Potteries Thinkbelt'. Visionary designs range from daffily idle to the egalitarian - 5th December 2012
 * Nick Boles's fait accompli: for housing you like, build on the countryside - To conserve or to scrap planning? Neither of these seemingly contradictory Tory impulses will solve the housing crisis - 29th November 2012
 * Housing policy, Newham style: let residents make way for a UCL campus - Why is a Labour London borough demolishing a sound housing estate when it has a housing shortage? It can't be for the votes - 7th November 2012
 * Communal living – forget stereotypes, it could solve the UK's housing crisis - Collective housing is unlikely to endear itself to the government, but it's time we looked beyond our obsession with private space - 30th October 2012
 * The Memoto camera – narcissism or media for the masses? - New technologies such as a camera that documents your life may yet help to fulfil leftwing media theorists' dreams - 26th October 2012
 * BAE Systems is a British success story – so why the secrecy? - Despite its size, it's hard to find physical traces of the arms industry on our landscape, making us wonder what it has to hide - 18th October 2012
 * Jim Murphy's dangling of middle-class mobility is a rat race for the few - Instead of seeking to reform class structure, the shadow defence secretary is offering hope only of individual advancement - 6th October 2012



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