“... For​ at least a thousand years, London has been England’s first city. The unofficial title of ‘second city’ has changed hands many times. York, Norwich, Bristol, Manchester and Liverpool have all taken a turn. Since the First World War, Birmingham has generally been considered the UK’s second city. It became the second most populous city in England in 1911, and in Britain forty years later, overtaking Glasgow ...”

“... Architecture,’ Owen Hatherley states in his essay ‘The Brutishness of British Modernism’, ‘unlike the other arts, can’t be ignored, can’t be passively consumed, not if you have to live in it.’ His published writings thus far have been a stinging lash across the back of current architectural criticism – a necessary corrective to its supine state ...”

“... to work on their Bauhaus-ish project at Dartington, not altogether enthusiastically described by Owen Hatherley as ‘that exceptionally British establishment thing, a progressive private school’. It was rather more than that. Gropius was amazed by the display of wealth and opulence: ‘A vast park … trees I have never seen … sixty ...”

“... Soviet Union, but who knows in what spirit of Stalinist nostalgia people read it these days. Now, Owen Hatherley tells us, the Poles actually like their Palace of Culture. Moscow State University in its heyday (c.1953). I’ve noticed before the strange tendency of hateful buildings to become almost lovable after the passage of decades. Not all of ...”

“... is not only possible: it is already flourishing.’ Zero also published Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley, One-Dimensional Woman by Nina Power and The Meaning of David Cameron by Richard Seymour, all of which grew from their authors’ blogposts. Such works amounted to ‘a kernel of a whole new left public’, according to another of Fisher’s ...”

“... James Butler, Andrew Cockburn, Meehan Crist, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Peter Geoghegan, Jeremy Harding, Owen Hatherley, Abby Innes, Mimi Jiang, Thomas Jones, Laleh Khalili, Jackson Lears, Donald MacKenzie, Thomas Meaney, James Meek, Pankaj Mishra, Azadeh Moaveni, Jan-Werner Müller, Vadim Nikitin, Jacqueline Rose, Jeremy Smith, Daniel Soar, Olena ...”

“... each. You can rent one of them on Airbnb.The Salters occupy just a couple of pages in Owen Hatherley’s Red Metropolis, a small part in the story of the early, heterogeneous and fractious London left. They are folded rapidly into the story of the London County Council, run by a zealous Labour Party that was accused at the time of wanting to ...”

“... would seize on a few decades later. Southampton usually escapes urban historians’ notice, but Owen Hatherley shows how it took advantage of relative prosperity and strong traditions of civic building to avoid Newham’s fate and construct attractive modernist housing for tenants across class lines.The architects and planners Guy Ortolano examines in ...”

“... London Council and is there more recently still, for example, in the writings of the critic Owen Hatherley. In accounts like Hatherley’s, Forster writes, ‘the Commune emerges as a historic touchstone for municipalism – meaning socialised cities made through a “commitment to the provision of ...”

“... He emerged from the mid-2000s network of bloggers that also included Mark Fisher, Nina Power and Owen Hatherley.* Their interests differed, but they shared a commitment to challenging what they saw as the stultifying political and cultural consensus of the neoliberal boom years – what Fisher called the era of ‘capitalist realism’ – and to an ...”

“... with regard to Toni Morrison and other exemplars from the past. Like her fellow Zer0 author Owen Hatherley, Power has a curatorial, almost antiquarian attitude to the relics of vintage radicalism she admires. She writes of ‘the sheer crystalline simplicity of Morrison’s insights into the relationship between class, race and gender’. How ...”

“... children to private schools, got the smell of fish out of their clothes. In A New Kind of Bleak, Owen Hatherley describes how during its fishing boom years Aberdeen almost bankrupted itself with grand architecture and elaborate cultural legacies, yet ‘in the 35 years since Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe, the city has not seen a single ...”