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	Over the last ten years, Owen Hatherley has been something of a tour de force in architectural criticism, publishing erudite and insightful content at a rate that would put most writers to shame.		Over the last ten years, Owen Hatherley has been something of a tour de force in architectural criticism, publishing erudite and insightful content at a rate that would put most writers to shame.

−	Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 ~~for~~ the publication of his epic '[[Owen_Hatherley_-_Landscapes_of_Communism\|Landscapes of Communism]]'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'	+	Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 about the publication of his epic '[[Owen_Hatherley_-_Landscapes_of_Communism\|Landscapes of Communism]]'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'

	In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could mark the end of his 'urban explorations'...		In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could mark the end of his 'urban explorations'...

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	Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic '[[Owen_Hatherley_-_Landscapes_of_Communism\|Landscapes of Communism]]'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'		Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic '[[Owen_Hatherley_-_Landscapes_of_Communism\|Landscapes of Communism]]'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'

−	In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could mark an end of his 'urban explorations'...	+	In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could mark the end of his 'urban explorations'...

	[[File:Owenhatherleyinterview.jpg\|link=File:Owenhatherleyinterview.jpg]]		[[File:Owenhatherleyinterview.jpg\|link=File:Owenhatherleyinterview.jpg]]

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	Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic '[[Owen_Hatherley_-_Landscapes_of_Communism\|Landscapes of Communism]]'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'		Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic '[[Owen_Hatherley_-_Landscapes_of_Communism\|Landscapes of Communism]]'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'

−	In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could ~~be one~~ of his ~~last~~...	+	In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could mark an end of his 'urban explorations'...

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	I’d rather do a lot more historical stuff that involves going into archives. That would be in terms of books, in terms of journalism there’s still a lot to argue for, and now there’s the novelty that to some extent I’ll be listened to, whereas over the last 10 years, certainly the first few anyway, there was never any sense of that.		I’d rather do a lot more historical stuff that involves going into archives. That would be in terms of books, in terms of journalism there’s still a lot to argue for, and now there’s the novelty that to some extent I’ll be listened to, whereas over the last 10 years, certainly the first few anyway, there was never any sense of that.

−	Now, I think there’s an openness to ideas on housing and planning by people who could end up in government so I’m very keen to influence that in any way that I can. In terms of books, I don’t want to do them anymore, I feel like I’ve done what I set out to do. This and the book coming later in the year will be the last, after that I will do something else.	+	Now, I think there’s an openness to ideas on housing and planning by people who could end up in government so I’m very keen to influence that in any way that I can. In terms of 'walking around and looking at things' books, I don’t want to do them anymore, I feel like I’ve done what I set out to do. This and the book coming later in the year will be the last, after that I will do something else.

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	* Interview with Kevin McCloud.		* Interview with Kevin McCloud.
	* Interview with Tom Dyckhoff.		* Interview with Tom Dyckhoff.
		+	* List of interviews.
	* Owen Hatherley interview.		* Owen Hatherley interview.
	* Owen Hatherley - Landscapes of Communism.		* Owen Hatherley - Landscapes of Communism.

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	When they were protesting there a year ago, one of the things people were doing was throwing paint at these ridiculous buildings and monuments because they see them as being the reason for their dispossession.		When they were protesting there a year ago, one of the things people were doing was throwing paint at these ridiculous buildings and monuments because they see them as being the reason for their dispossession.

−	I’m quite sure at some point Simon Jenkins will discover Skopje and talk about how ~~it’s~~ brilliant it is, and how anyone who doesn’t like it is a snob, which is why he should never be allowed to write about architecture ever again.	+	I’m quite sure at some point Simon Jenkins will discover Skopje and talk about how brilliant it is, and how anyone who doesn’t like it is a snob, which is why he should never be allowed to write about architecture ever again.

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	Over the last ten years, Owen Hatherley has been something of a tour de force in architectural criticism, publishing erudite and insightful content at a rate that would put most writers to shame.		Over the last ten years, Owen Hatherley has been something of a tour de force in architectural criticism, publishing erudite and insightful content at a rate that would put most writers to shame.

−	Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic 'Landscapes of Communism'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'	+	Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic '[[Owen_Hatherley_-_Landscapes_of_Communism\|Landscapes of Communism]]'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'

	In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could be one of his last...		In this wide-ranging interview, Hatherley explores and elaborates on some of the city-specific issues he addresses in the book, gives his current thoughts on the state of development in London, has some characteristically scathing words for the writer Simon Jenkins, and suggests that this book could be one of his last...

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	One of the reasons why my writing tends to find its place in book form is that a lot of architecture magazines don’t want my sort of writing. They want buildings to be reviewed and given star ratings, which I don’t find a particularly interesting way of looking at buildings or at cities. For example, if you search ‘Manchester’ on Archdaily, you’ll find lots of buildings by famous people like Foster, Libeskind and Calatrava – none of them very good. But there are loads of amazing buildings in Manchester by the likes of Harry S. Fairhurst, Leach Rhodes Walker, and so on.		One of the reasons why my writing tends to find its place in book form is that a lot of architecture magazines don’t want my sort of writing. They want buildings to be reviewed and given star ratings, which I don’t find a particularly interesting way of looking at buildings or at cities. For example, if you search ‘Manchester’ on Archdaily, you’ll find lots of buildings by famous people like Foster, Libeskind and Calatrava – none of them very good. But there are loads of amazing buildings in Manchester by the likes of Harry S. Fairhurst, Leach Rhodes Walker, and so on.

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	In architecture and planning it has always been third-rate. I developed a taste there for things being architecturally mixed, which it is in Southampton, much more so than a completely historic city like Winchester or a totally modern city like Basingstoke, both of which are nearby and which I find vastly more boring.		In architecture and planning it has always been third-rate. I developed a taste there for things being architecturally mixed, which it is in Southampton, much more so than a completely historic city like Winchester or a totally modern city like Basingstoke, both of which are nearby and which I find vastly more boring.

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	But maybe those who live in Sweden and complain about their housing situation should be forced to live in London for 6 months.		But maybe those who live in Sweden and complain about their housing situation should be forced to live in London for 6 months.

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	The fact that it has been able to be saved on the basis of it being appealed on equality law was really interesting – they argued that what was intended to be built in its place had no provision for the minority ethnic groups or the elderly that use it. I thought that was incredibly astute that they used that line of attack and I hope it’s used much more often.		The fact that it has been able to be saved on the basis of it being appealed on equality law was really interesting – they argued that what was intended to be built in its place had no provision for the minority ethnic groups or the elderly that use it. I thought that was incredibly astute that they used that line of attack and I hope it’s used much more often.

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	Certainly in Haringey people could see what happened at Woodbury Down and Stratford, and so could say ‘this is not for us’. The wankers – Peter John, Alan Strictland and Claire Kober – of course still say ‘this is for you, you’re in the way of development which is going to make lives better for people’, but ‘these people’ that they are talking on behalf of can see that the empty flats in front of them are not for them. So on an empirical level, people can see that it’s bollocks.		Certainly in Haringey people could see what happened at Woodbury Down and Stratford, and so could say ‘this is not for us’. The wankers – Peter John, Alan Strictland and Claire Kober – of course still say ‘this is for you, you’re in the way of development which is going to make lives better for people’, but ‘these people’ that they are talking on behalf of can see that the empty flats in front of them are not for them. So on an empirical level, people can see that it’s bollocks.

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	There is not a lot I would credit Italian planning for, their record over the last 100 years is not great, but being able to have historic centres that are quite relaxed is one of them.		There is not a lot I would credit Italian planning for, their record over the last 100 years is not great, but being able to have historic centres that are quite relaxed is one of them.

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−	Is it possible to draw a loose parallel between the great plans in Skopje – which you call a ‘stark vision of contemporary priorities’ – with the post-1960s clash in the UK between the traditionalists and modernists?	+	Is it possible to draw a loose parallel between the great plans in Skopje – which you call a ‘stark vision of contemporary priorities’ – with the post-1960s clash in the UK between the traditionalists of the Prince Charles mentality and the modernists?
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	One of the reasons why my writing tends to find its place in book form is that a lot of architecture magazines don’t want my sort of writing. They want buildings to be reviewed and given star ratings, which I don’t find a particularly interesting way of looking at buildings or at cities. For example, if you search ‘Manchester’ on Archdaily, you’ll find lots of buildings by famous people like Foster, Libeskind and Calatrava – none of them very good. But there are loads of amazing buildings in Manchester by the likes of Harry S. Fairhurst, Leach Rhodes Walker, and so on.		One of the reasons why my writing tends to find its place in book form is that a lot of architecture magazines don’t want my sort of writing. They want buildings to be reviewed and given star ratings, which I don’t find a particularly interesting way of looking at buildings or at cities. For example, if you search ‘Manchester’ on Archdaily, you’ll find lots of buildings by famous people like Foster, Libeskind and Calatrava – none of them very good. But there are loads of amazing buildings in Manchester by the likes of Harry S. Fairhurst, Leach Rhodes Walker, and so on.
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	In architecture and planning it has always been third-rate. I developed a taste there for things being architecturally mixed, which it is in Southampton, much more so than a completely historic city like Winchester or a totally modern city like Basingstoke, both of which are nearby and which I find vastly more boring.		In architecture and planning it has always been third-rate. I developed a taste there for things being architecturally mixed, which it is in Southampton, much more so than a completely historic city like Winchester or a totally modern city like Basingstoke, both of which are nearby and which I find vastly more boring.
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−	~~Interested~~ to read about Sweden’s Million Programme in the 1960s – laudable aims~~, not dissimilar to Labour’s recently stated policies~~. And yet, now they are in the midst of a prolonged housing bubble which people are blaming on precisely those sorts of policies – oversupply, rent regulations, capital gains tax on property sales, and so on.	+	I was interested to read about Sweden’s Million Programme in the 1960s that came out of very laudable aims. And yet, now they are in the midst of a prolonged housing bubble which people are blaming on precisely those sorts of policies – oversupply, rent regulations, capital gains tax on property sales, and so on. Can it be said to have been successful overall?
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	But maybe those who live in Sweden and complain about their housing situation should be forced to live in London for 6 months.		But maybe those who live in Sweden and complain about their housing situation should be forced to live in London for 6 months.
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−	~~Interested in the~~ similarities you draw between Dutch and British cities, but also the distinctions – ‘people made Dutch cities better’. ~~Could you unpack that a bit more and explain why~~ people ~~haven’t~~ made British cities better?	+	The similarities you draw between Dutch and British cities are very interesting, but also the distinctions – you say that ‘people made Dutch cities better’. Why haven't people made British cities better?
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	The fact that it has been able to be saved on the basis of it being appealed on equality law was really interesting – they argued that what was intended to be built in its place had no provision for the minority ethnic groups or the elderly that use it. I thought that was incredibly astute that they used that line of attack and I hope it’s used much more often.		The fact that it has been able to be saved on the basis of it being appealed on equality law was really interesting – they argued that what was intended to be built in its place had no provision for the minority ethnic groups or the elderly that use it. I thought that was incredibly astute that they used that line of attack and I hope it’s used much more often.
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−	Last time I interviewed you, you were quite pessimistic about the state of London’s development. In light of Elephant and Castle and things like the Haringey Development Vehicle, are you slightly more optimistic now?	+	Last time I interviewed you in 2015, you were quite pessimistic about the state of London’s development. In light of Elephant and Castle and things like the Haringey Development Vehicle, are you slightly more optimistic now?
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−	Vastly more optimistic. I’m quite impressed at how much people in London have stopped taking shit, I think it’s great. This is hard to prove, but each of those two things are right next to huge developments that got built, so we know now what it means.	+	Vastly more optimistic. I’m quite impressed at how much people in London have stopped taking shit, I think it’s great. This is hard to prove, but each of those two things you mentioned are right next to huge developments that got built, so we know now what it means.

	In 1997, you could say to people ‘in the future you’ll be rehoused in a lovely new development on the same ground which will be nicer housing, nicer high street, and your life will be better, we might have to use private developers to do it but the proof will be in the pudding’. Well, now we’ve eaten the pudding, and the pudding is shite, the pudding is 40-storeys of largely empty luxury flats.		In 1997, you could say to people ‘in the future you’ll be rehoused in a lovely new development on the same ground which will be nicer housing, nicer high street, and your life will be better, we might have to use private developers to do it but the proof will be in the pudding’. Well, now we’ve eaten the pudding, and the pudding is shite, the pudding is 40-storeys of largely empty luxury flats.
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	Certainly in Haringey people could see what happened at Woodbury Down and Stratford, and so could say ‘this is not for us’. The wankers – Peter John, Alan Strictland and Claire Kober – of course still say ‘this is for you, you’re in the way of development which is going to make lives better for people’, but ‘these people’ that they are talking on behalf of can see that the empty flats in front of them are not for them. So on an empirical level, people can see that it’s bollocks.		Certainly in Haringey people could see what happened at Woodbury Down and Stratford, and so could say ‘this is not for us’. The wankers – Peter John, Alan Strictland and Claire Kober – of course still say ‘this is for you, you’re in the way of development which is going to make lives better for people’, but ‘these people’ that they are talking on behalf of can see that the empty flats in front of them are not for them. So on an empirical level, people can see that it’s bollocks.
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−	One of the reasons why Bologna is in the book is the fact that a lot of those middling Italian cities have a lot of preservation and it doesn’t feel Disney-like. One of the things about places I go to that I quite like but feel a bit uncomfortable in, like the old town in Stockholm, is the sense that everything has been freeze-dried and sand-blasted and all life removed, which is quite depressing and often has an aspect involved of removing the poor from them a lot of the time.	+	One of the reasons why Bologna (see image above) is in the book is the fact that a lot of those middling Italian cities have a lot of preservation and it doesn’t feel Disney-like. One of the things about places I go to that I quite like but feel a bit uncomfortable in, like the old town in Stockholm, is the sense that everything has been freeze-dried and sand-blasted and all life removed, which is quite depressing and often has an aspect involved of removing the poor from them a lot of the time.

	There is not a lot I would credit Italian planning for, their record over the last 100 years is not great, but being able to have historic centres that are quite relaxed is one of them.		There is not a lot I would credit Italian planning for, their record over the last 100 years is not great, but being able to have historic centres that are quite relaxed is one of them.
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−	With Skopje that was necessary because of the fact that it’s one of those places where you could so easily fall into the look of being the person who beams down from Western Europe and goes to the Balkans and says ‘oh it’s so uncivilised’. So I was quite keen to talk to Macedonians who also thought it was ~~fucking~~ disgusting and who were spending their waking hours trying to fight it.	+	With Skopje that was necessary because of the fact that it’s one of those places where you could so easily fall into the look of being the person who beams down from Western Europe and goes to the Balkans and says ‘oh it’s so uncivilised’. So I was quite keen to talk to Macedonians who also thought it was disgusting and who were spending their waking hours trying to fight it.

	But I don’t ‘vox pop’, if anyone is interviewed in the book it’s because I know them. Other people can ‘vox pop’, there’s Olly Wainwright for that.		But I don’t ‘vox pop’, if anyone is interviewed in the book it’s because I know them. Other people can ‘vox pop’, there’s Olly Wainwright for that.
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	--[[User:Michael_Brooks\|Michael Brooks]]		--[[User:Michael_Brooks\|Michael Brooks]]
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		+	= Find out more =
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		+	=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===
		+
		+	* Interview with Kevin McCloud.
		+	* Interview with Tom Dyckhoff.
		+	* Owen Hatherley interview.
		+	* Owen Hatherley - Landscapes of Communism.
		+	* Vital Little Plans - book launch.
		+	* Will Self interview.
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		+	[[Category:History]] [[Category:Publications_/_reports]] [[Category:Theory]]

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−	Over the last ten years, Owen Hatherley has ~~become~~ something of a tour de force in architectural criticism, publishing erudite and insightful content at a rate that would put most writers to shame.	+	Over the last ten years, Owen Hatherley has been something of a tour de force in architectural criticism, publishing erudite and insightful content at a rate that would put most writers to shame.

	Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic 'Landscapes of Communism'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'		Designing Buildings Wiki first interviewed Hatherley [[Owen_Hatherley_interview\|here]] in 2015 for the publication of his epic 'Landscapes of Communism'. Since then he has published 'The Ministry of Nostalgia', about the aesthetics of austerity Britain, and 'The Chaplin Machine' about the Soviet avant-garde. He returns to architecture and urban planning with 'Trans-Europe Express', a book which sees him exploring a disparate collection of cities - Dublin, Bologna, Hull, Bergen, Split, etc. - in the search for the elusive answer to the question 'what is a European city?'