Nairn's Towns

‘It’s not easy to pigeonhole the late English writer Ian Nairn. But after reading his work you might rightly decide that there’s no need to do so. His rubric doesn’t matter because, whatever kind of writer he is, he follows his own meandering counsel, and the results are consistently brilliant.’ The Millions magazine ‘Once you discover [Nairn]...you want to read everything he's written.’ - Daily Telegraph A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley. Sixteen essays show Nairn ‘writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several things happening at once - assessments of historic townscape, capsule reviews of new buildings, attempts to find the specific character of each place.’ (Owen Hatherley) Hardback, clothbound with ribbon marker Black and white images throughout 272 pages