Acclaimed critic Ian Nairn's masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955.
Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a British architectural critic and topographer who coined the term "Subtopia" for the areas around cities that had in his view been failed by urban planning, losing their individuality and spirit of place. In the 1960s he contributed to the volumes on Surrey and Sussex in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England series and published a number of his own books, including Nairn's Paris and Modern Buildings in London, published by Notting Hill Editions. Travis Elborough is the author of many books, including Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles, and Atlas of Vanishing Places, winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Book Award in 2020.
