No Mythology, No Ghosts
Owen Hatherley: Second City?, 3 November 2022
Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain
by Richard Vinen.
Allen Lane, 545 pp., £25, September 2022,978 0 241 45453 4 Show More
by Richard Vinen.
Allen Lane, 545 pp., £25, September 2022,
“... machine with an impassable divide between rich and poor. (Among Briggs’s disciples was Jane Jacobs, who drew on his ideas to construct a theory of benign capitalism in The Economy of Cities, which has in turn influenced generations of neoliberals.) The essential idea is that Birmingham, as a city of hundreds of small trades rather than one ... ”