Podcast appearances and mentions of Owen Hatherley

Owen Hatherley ist ein britischer Publizist mit Fokus auf Architektur (Brutalismus & Modernismus), Politik & Kultur. Er schreibt hauptsächlich für Architectural Review, Jacobin, die London Review of Books, Sidecar & Tribune und hat viele tolle Bücher zu Ästhetik & Politik veröffentlicht. owenhatherley.co.uk Sendung auf Deutsch und Englisch overdubbed, Skript weiter unten Part I is online at https://www.mixcloud.com/ittym/the-alienation-effect-w-owen-hatherley-ptii/ Ausgehend von drei Persönlichkeiten, die sehr unterschiedliche Wege eingeschlagen haben, jedoch alle im Konstruktivismus verwurzelt waren, haben wir im April das geistige und intellektuelle Klima in GB in der Zwischenkriegszeit im Gegensatz zu Zentraleuropa beleuchtet: Die Architekten Erno Goldfinger und Berthold Lubetkin sowie der Kunsthistoriker Nikolaus Pevsner standen im Fokus. Ein unrühmliches Kapitel, nämlich die antisemitisch und fremdenfeindlich motivierte Internierung der meisten Exilanten habe ich am Beispiel Kurt Schwitters umrissen. In seinem Buch gelingt es Owen, die Trope des 'guten Einwanders' zu vermeiden, deren Kehrseite die der 'unerwünschten, schlechten' Immigration ist - die Heterogenität der Exilant:innen spricht für sich. Sie einte Fluchterfahrung und Othering. Viele von ihnen waren überzeugte Antifaschist:innen und ihr Leben und Werk bezeugt das. Owens Begeisterung für einige der Protagonist:innen, seiner 'Held:innen', denn die gibt es durchaus, ist mitreißend. In diesem Teil der Sendung sollen einige von ihnen und ihr Einsatz für öffentlichen Luxus im Mittelpunkt stehen. Und das ist auch die Brücke zur Gegenwart und zu den letzten Sendungen - die Frage nach antifaschistischer Theorie und Praxis. Quellen: Tschichold https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tschichold Stefan Lorant / Lilliput / Picture Post https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/10/picture-post-stefan-lorant-edward-hulton-central-europe https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/m/mag/lill/zzzzz/hfield/a.htm https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/back-to-the-middle-ages-picture-post/ https://youtu.be/cmCkvxGnCr0?si=T1ayc6XwCXRAnEGs The Themersons https://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/stefan_and_franciszka_themerson/calling_mr_smith.html https://monoskop.org/images/b/b4/Kubasiewicz_Jan_1993_The_Themersons_and_the_Gaberbocchus_Press_An_Experiment_in_Publishing_1948-1979.pdf https-//vimeo.com/177270179 Ruth Glass https://uclurbanlab.medium.com/urban-lab-walk-ruth-glass-1964-london-route-in-2024-d56cce80baf2 https://optimism-modernity.org.uk/documents/contact1946.html https://archive.ph/V2KUu Naum Gabo https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Realistische_Manifest https://berlinischegalerie.de/sammlung/kuenstlerinnen-archive/das-realistische-manifest-von-naum-gabo/ https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/377 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/eva-frankfurther-the-forgotten-german-artist-who-captured-a-changing-london https://optimism-modernity.org.uk/documents/contact1946.html Hans Feibusch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entartete_Kunst_(Ausstellung) https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Entartete_Kunst_(Ausstellung)#Inszenierung https://lostgen.art/thema/ausstellung.pdf https://stjohnswaterloo.org/hans-feibusch-a-focus/

In this episode Matthew Lloyd Roberts was joined by the historian Katrina Navickas to discuss the history of Grosvenor Square in Mayfair as a site of protest and policing. From the early twentieth century the square was home to the US Embassy, and it was the site of several protests against American foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War in 1968. The policing of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign led to the first CCTV system in the UK being erected in the square. The Embassy building itself, designed by Eero Saarinen, became a potent symbol of American power in London, but more recently the Embassy has moved to a more secure location in Nine Elms.Katrina Navickas is Professor of History at the University of Hertfordshire. Her latest book is Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England (Reaktion Books, 2025). She contributed the ‘Croydon' chapter to Owen Hatherley's The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs (Open House London, 2020), and also the Croydon guide for the Open City Pocket London maps. She is also a founding member of the Rural Modernism network.The podcast is produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. It's recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Subscribe on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunes and to further support, become an Open City Friend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suite (212) returns after five years – and true to form, it's with an episode analysing the current political and cultural climate in the UK and beyond, and why we brought the show back into it. There's a twist, however, as frequent guest Owen Hatherley asks regular host Juliet Jacques the questions, about why Suite (212) ended in December 2021, what's changed since, and what the programme might do differently this time around. Along the way, we talked about the differences between Jeremy Corbyn and Zack Polanski as leaders of political projects and their respective tastes shape them; how the left reacted to the defeats of 2019-24 and the cultural effects of their withdrawal; the decline of the US as a cultural hegemon, and the rise of Chinese and Korean culture in the west; the international far-right attacks on the arts and the parts of society that uphold them; the concept of ‘counter-counterculture'; the impact of developments from the genocide in Gaza to the coming of AI on the arts; the crushing disappointment of Starmer's Labour and their lack of interest in culture; how ‘stanning' sells artists short; and some ideas for future episodes, ending with an appeal for our listeners to get involved in shaping its new direction. To subscribe to Suite (212) for as little as £3.50 per month, please visit https://www.patreon.com/c/suite212.

Why does Warsaw look so different from every other European capital? In this episode of Talk Eastern Europe, Nina Panikova speaks with British writer and journalist Owen Hatherley about the dramatic history that shaped Poland's capital – from wartime destruction and communist-era rebuilding to modern skyscrapers and experimental urban planning.They discuss Warsaw's modernist housing estates, socialistrealist architecture, the iconic Palace of Culture and Science, and why the city remains one of Europe's most misunderstood capitals. Is Warsaw chaotic, visionary, unfinished – or all three at once?If you're interested in architecture, urban history, Central Europe, communism, post-socialist transformation, or the future of European cities, this episode is for you.Places in Warsaw (and beyond) mentioned in the interview:Żoliborz, one of the northern districts of Warsaw. Narkomfin building,  a block of 25 flats known for its constructivist architecture in Moscow, Russia.Praga, a district of Warsaw, Poland. It is on the east bank of the river VistulaConstitution Square, a monumental urban square in Warsaw built in the 1950s as a flagship project of socialist realism.Muranów, a special area in Warsaw's history located adjacent to the Wola and Śródmieście districts. Most of it was incorporated into the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War.Palace of Culture and Science, a notable high-rise building in central Warsaw, Poland. With a total height of 237 meters, it is the second-tallest building in both Warsaw and PolandNowy Świat (New World Street), one of Warsaw's most famous and vibrant historic streets.New Belgrade (Novi Beograd) is the largest and most modern district of Belgrade, SerbiaCentral Department Store, ‘Smyk', a modernist building in Warsaw.Koło Housing Estate of the architects Szymon and Helena Syrkus.Sady Żoliborskie, a celebrated modernist housing estate and sub-district in northern Warsaw.Palace of the Soviets, was a project to construct a politicalconvention centre in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. It was never built. The Palace of Parliament ( previously People's House ), the seat of the Romanian parliament and the heaviest building in the world. Talk Eastern Europe is the podcast from NewEastern Europe magazine - your trusted source for in-depth analysis and expert perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the post-Soviet space. ABOUT THIS PODCASTWe publish twice weekly:Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts andall major platforms.JOIN THE COMMUNITYNew Eastern Europe Magazine Bimonthly publication with exclusive long-formanalysis. → Become a member: https://neweasterneurope.eu/become-a-member-of-new-eastern-europe/ Support on PatreonJoin our community for bonus content, early access, behind-the-scenes insights, and access to our exclusive WhatsApp group where we discuss the news in real-time. → Join the Talk Eastern Europe community: https://www.patreon.com/talkeasterneuropeBrief Eastern Europe NewsletterWeekly briefing sent out every Monday with newsupdates, expert commentary, and our editorial picks - free to your inbox. → Subscribe: https://briefeasterneurope.eu/subscribe FOLLOW USInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/neweasterneuropemag/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewEasternEurope/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-eastern-europe/Twitter/X: https://x.com/NewEastEurope

In Up in the Air (Verso) architectural historian Holly Smith tells the story of Britain's multi-storey council housing from its beginnings to the present day, charting how at different times it became the symbol of the welfare state's idealistic principles, and of its failures. Building on extensive research, Smith tells the story of high-rise housing from the perspective of those who lived there, from Sheffield to Liverpool to London. Smith was in conversation with historian Owen Hatherley, whose most recent book is The Alienation Effect.

Der deutsche Faschismus zwang einen Großteil deutscher & europäischer Künstler:innen & Intellektueller zur Flucht und ins Exil, Zehntausende suchten Zuflucht in Großbritannien.
Viele dieser Exilant:innen waren ‚Doppeltgeflüchtete‘, oft hatten sie mindestens zwei Länder verlassen, bevor sie nach GB kamen. Es sind Biografien, die auch der „Geschichte von Revolutionen und Konterrevolutionen“ geschuldet sind: Die ungarischer Juden& Jüdinnen bspw., die nach der Zerschlagung der Sowjetrepublik 1919 aufgrund antisemtischer Progrome das Land verlassen hatten und nach Berlin oder nach Wien gegangen waren oder Biografien wie die von John Heartfield, der von Berlin über Prag und Paris nach London auswanderte.
Hatherley argumentiert, dass diese Emigrantengeneration, obwohl ihr in Großbritannien misstraut, sie missachtet und oft verleumdnet und nach Kriegsbeginn auf der Isle of Man als „Enemy Aliens“ interniert wurde, letztendlich einen entscheidenden, transformativen Einfluss auf die britische Kultur hatte.
(Denn) die Reaktion auf den Ersten Weltkrieg war in Großbritannien "eine Welle von Nostalgie, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Abschottung" gewesen, es war "eines der kulturell dürftigsten Jahrzehnte in der Geschichte Großbritanniens – ein krasser Gegensatz zu den Entwicklungen auf dem Kontinent, insbesondere in Mitteleuropa."
Der Schriftsteller Arthur Koestler beschrieb das 'menschliche' Klima Englands als angenehm und beruhigend, als „a kind of Davos for internally bruised veterans of the totalitarian age“.
Diese Exilant:innen, von denen die meisten Juden und Jüdinnen und viele Kommunist:innen und Sozialist:innen waren, hinterliessen bleibende, wenn auch nicht unbedingt offensichtliche, Spuren in der britischen visuellen Kultur.
Sie modernisierten, trotz aller Ablehnung und vieler Widerstände, den ästhetischen Konservatismus des ‚piefigen' Großbrittanniens der Zwischenkriegszeit.
Hatherley beleuchtet Fotografie, Malerei, Architektur, Buchgestaltung und Verlagswesen. Dabei vermeidet er dennoch, in die Trope des 'good immigrants' zu verfallen, es geht ihm vielmehr um Ambivalenzen. Viele kulturelle Phänomene, die als durch und durch britisch gelten, von der Reihe ,Britain in Pictures" der 1940er-Jahre - produziert von einem Team überwiegend weiblicher Emigrant:innen - über James-Bond-Filmsets und das Pinguinbecken im Londoner Zoo sind Emigrant:innen zu verdanken. Ich spreche mit Owen u.a. über die Hintergründe der Entstehungsgeschichte seines tollen Buchs und seine Motivation, es zu schreiben. Über die Rezeption moderner Kunst in den Zwischenkriegsjahren in Großbritannien. Über die Architekten Naum Gabo, Erno Goldfinger und Berthold Lubetkin. Über die britische antifaschistische Antwort auf die Hetzkampagne in Form der Münchener Ausstellung Entartete Kunst' von 1937. Über Kurt Schwitters im Internierungslager und im Lake District. Über die eher konservativen Exilant:innen, wie Nikolaus Pevsner oder Friedrich Hayek. Unabhängig von ihrer jeweiligen politischen Ausrichtung glaubten sie alle an ,öffentliche Kultur und öffentlichen Luxus", stellt Owen Hatherley fest. My gratitude to Chris Povey to lending his voice to the poems of Kurt Schwitters. In der nächsten Folge: u.a.: Typografie & Buchdesign, Ruth Glass, Naum Gabo, Ernst Feibusch https://owenhatherley.co.uk/ https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/311898/the-alienation-effect-by-hatherley-owen/9780141989778

In the first of a new series from Old Street in which historian focus on a single moment of history, pre-eminent English-language expert on the Soviet Union Sheila Fitzpatrick gives a detailed and darkly humorous account of the day in 1953 on which Stalin died, an event for which, despite its inevitability, both Russia and the wider world were almost completely unprepared. Fitzpatrick discussed The Death of Stalin with Owen Hatherley (Trans-Europe Express, The Alienation Effect).

In this near-final episode of 2025, the three co-hosts of Talk Eastern Europe reflect on the key political, social and geopolitical developments that shaped the region over the past year. They discuss waves of protest across several countries, the resilience of civil society, and the evolving security environment and geopolitical shifts since the start of 2025, including the impact of the new US presidency. The conversation also looks ahead to 2026 and considers what listeners should be watching in the year to come.The opening part concludes with a reflection on the success of Talk Eastern Europe in 2025, as the co-hosts share their favourite episodes and recommend past conversations worth revisiting.In the second part of the episode, Nina speaks with Owen Hatherley, a British writer, journalist and cultural critic known for his work on architecture, urbanism and politics, particularly modernism and communism. Together, they explore the profound influence of Central European émigrés on British architecture, culture and literature in the mid-20th century, tracing how these figures reshaped Britain's intellectual and cultural landscape during and after the Second World War.These themes are explored in depth in Owen's book The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/311898/the-alienation-effect-by-hatherley-owen/9780241378205Some figures and references mentioned in the interview:Otti Berger – Croatian designerEugene (Evžen) RosenbergJosef Herman – Polish-British painterJankel Adler – Polish painterJan Tschichold – German calligrapher and typographerHans Schmoller – German and British graphic designerRomek Marber – Polish-born graphic designer behind Penguin's ‘Marber Grid'Walter Neurath and Eva Neurath – founders of Thames & HudsonBerthold Lubetkin – architect associated with Soviet Bauhaus and VkhutemasErnő Goldfinger – Hungarian architect, designer of London's Balfron Tower and Trellick TowerKarel Čapek – Czech author and his book Letters from EnglandBertolt Brecht – German theatre practitioner, and the author of the Alienation theory (Verfremdungseffekt)Otto Neurath – Austrian polymathDua Lipa – British-Albanian pop singer, born to Kosovar Albanian parentsFor Talk Eastern Europe Patrons, Owen Hatherley stayed on for an extended discussion on Polish milk bars and their cultural significance which can be heard here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/249-bonus-polish-146141039

Owen Hatherley & Michael Hofmann on the European émigrés that made Britain In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. In The Alienation Effect (Allen Lane) acclaimed architectural historian Owen Hatherley draws on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, to argue that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better. Owen Hatherley was joined in conversation about his book by poet and translator Michael Hofmann. From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠⁠⁠⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/storebkshppod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk

Send us a textGraham and Charles discuss the art of Jim Moir (AKA Vic Reeves) as his latest art exhibition, What a Load of Monarchs opens at Harrogate's Red House Gallery.Graham salutes Sam Fender's Mercury Prize victory in Newcastle and wonders why Wes Anderson recent film The Phoenician Scheme is his third lightweight trifle in a row.Graham also shares his latest reading material and let's on why Owen Hatherley and Brian Eno are currently floating his boat.And next up for Harrogate's Vinyl Sessions is Leonard CohenKeep in touch with Two Big Egos in a Small Car:X@2big_egosFacebook@twobigegos

On living with modernity. Richard J Williams talks to Alex and George about his new book, The Expressway World and how cities have adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century. We talk about New York, London, São Paulo, Madrid, Glasgow and Seoul. Why do people hate expressways – and who actually loves them? What are Big Man cities? How do expressways bring together populism, authoritarianism, and capital? Why is the antidote to 20th century car-centricity always gentrified and sanitised public space? What are the class struggles that emerge over the expressway world? Is there a basic lie behind many "ecological" infrastructure projects? Links: The Expressway World, Richard J Williams, Polity Intersections, Owen Hatherley, Sidecar /113/ Globoville ft. Richard Williams

InterCities is a six-part podcast series from Open City. In it, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places' achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In this episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by Brian Hioe, a Taiwanese-American writer and academic based in Taipei, known for co-founding New Bloom Magazine and for his work exploring Taiwan's youth movements, politics, and culture. His 2025 debut novel, Taipei at Daybreak, blends activism and fiction to explore the emotional motivations and alienation behind the Sunflower Movement from a ground‑level perspective. We use the novel to talk about Taipei's shifting identity, the colonial ghosts the city is haunted by and how the architectural and urban spaces of Taipei shape the city's social and political movements. Subscribe to the Open City Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunesThe Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture platform and produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Owen Hatherley returns to discuss his New Left Review article on the Welsh guitar band, the Manic Street Preachers. We talked about the particular appeal the group seemed to hold for working class kids from non-metropolitan backgrounds in the 1990s, and about the forbearance and occasional embarrassment that is the lot of fans who've followed their work in the subsequent decades. We also talked about why such an avowedly left wing and politicised group have shown such little regard for contemporary left movements such as the Corbyn moment in the UK. Show notes: Music: Owen's acceptable Manics playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/53GV8dNKLZlo72Wp3GOdy5?si=e25a5413ece248ed&pt=8393e6591814e26432a7fd35670b2d43 Alex's reluctant Manics playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55IG8eV1kVH3kwAfEo9Z2y?si=ee8bcba703fc437a&pt=9a1779265389af95dcd44445656ef4c8 Videos: Faster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f9qUheits Faster TOTP performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5PI7k_ZiQ0 You Love Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgKXBJ2LZKo A Design for Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQ Enjoyably angry Design for Life TV performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbdsc-YxGB4 4st 7lb acoustic MTV performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXrzttSPlc0 Motorcycle Emptiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvk The Love of Richard Nixon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_G_R_1gMfc Jackie Collins Existential Question Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvbtSTamRc Further Reading: Owen's New Left Review article https://newleftreview.es/sidecar/posts/mislaid-plans Everything (A Book about Manic Street Preachers) by Simon Price https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780753501399/Everything-Book-Manic-Street-Preachers-0753501392/plp Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible by: Daniel Lukes, Larissa Wodtke, Rhian E Jones https://repeaterbooks.com/product/triptych-three-studies-of-manic-street-preachers-the-holy-bible/

InterCities is a six-part podcast series from Open City. In it, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places' achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In this episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the Israeli-born, UK-based academic and writer Dr Yair Wallach who specialises in the urban history of the Middle East. Today the focus is his 2020 book “A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem” which explores the city's history through ephemera and urban text and we use it to look more closely at the history of the city of Jerusalem under the British mandate (1918 - 1948). During this time, the British sought to impose a timeless image on Jerusalem and a number of intriguing characters - including Arts and Crafts architect CR Ashby - were involved in its aesthetic transformation. We also look at the Palestinians who challenged British and Zionist narratives through modernist and poetic expressions and whether an understanding of this time can help us in the context of the conflict today. Subscribe to the Open City Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunesThe Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app and produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage.The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate.To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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InterCities is a six-part podcast series from Open City. In it, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places' achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In this episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the Ukranian architect and urban historian Ievgeniia Gubkina. Gubkina was born in the northeastern Ukranian city of Kharkiv and lived there until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after which she fled with her teenage daughter and now lives in London in exile. Today, she talks to us about her upcoming publication “Kharkiv Architectural Guide” and we use it as a lens through which to explore the city's changing architectural iterations. From a university hub to the capital of Soviet Ukraine​, the avant-garde scene in the 1920s to the Stalinist-era "reconstruction" of Kharkiv's modernist buildings, we get a deep insight into the city's past and a sober reminder of its present.TW: The content of this episode can be distressing for some people as it mentions suicide. If this affects you, contact the Samaritans, a free and confidential service available 24 hours a day. https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/Subscribe to the Open City Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunesThe Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app and produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage.The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate.To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

InterCities is a brand new podcast from the team at Open City. In this six-part series, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places' achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In this episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the author and academic Dubravka Sekulić. Sekulić was born in one of Serbia's lesser-known cities Niš but today, she's walking us through the capital of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and current capital of Serbia, Belgrade. As we find out, the history of Belgrade's built-environment is influenced not only by attempts at constructing a socialist state, but also by its notable role in the Non-Aligned Movement, a forum of 120 countries not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc that sprung up after the Second World War. It's also been shaped by Energoprojekt, an engineering firm which built an enormous number of projects across Serbia and other non-aligned countries in Africa and Asia in the latter half of the 20th century. Ultimately, we learn it's the city's historical and political status as a regional outlier that makes it the complex, yet often overlooked, place it is today. Subscribe to the Open City Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunesThe Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app and produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage.The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate.To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Auf den Sozialismus sind die meisten Menschen in Polen nicht gut zu sprechen. Doch die Milchbars, die im Realsozialismus entstanden, um Frauen von der »Küchensklaverei« zu befreien, sind bis heute bei der breiten Bevölkerung beliebt. Artikel vom 24. März 2025: https://jacobin.de/artikel/milchbar-polen-realsozialismus Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Die besten Beiträge gibt es als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas regelmäßig an uns spenden via www.jacobin.de/podcast. Zu unseren anderen Kanälen: Instagram: www.instagram.com/jacobinmag_de X: www.twitter.com/jacobinmag_de YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/JacobinMagazin Webseite: www.jacobin.de

InterCities is a brand new podcast from the team at Open City. In this six-part series, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places' achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In our second episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the broadcaster, writer and photographer Johny Pitts. Johny is a Sheffield-native and has witnessed first-hand the huge social and architectural change the city has undergone since the early 1990s. Today, we use photographs from "After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024" a roving exhibition Johny has curated, to track the cities shifting identity from the so-called Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to a city where leisure and comfort are the new guiding principles. Subscribe to the Open City Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunesThe Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app and produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage.The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate.To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

InterCities is a brand new podcast from the team at Open City. In this six-part series, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places' achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In our first episode, our host Owen Hatherly is joined by the architect Ana Francisco Sutherland, the director of Francisco Sutherland Architects. Through the lens of Ana's latest book Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich, the pair discuss the changing face of the London borough of Greenwich. In a place where architects often designed for themselves they analyse different models of public space, the Blackheath style wars of the 1950s and 1960s and the vision of modernist property development company Span.Subscribe to the Open City Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunesThe Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app and produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage.The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate.To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Owen Hatherley conta-nos a história do estúdio de onde saíram algumas das mais famosas obras de animação japonesas. Um artigo lido por Carlos Carujo. /sites/default/files/2024-09/altavoz257.jpg

Studio Ghibli ist nicht das japanische Pendant zu Disney – sondern eher ein Anti-Disney. Die Filme der visionären Animatoren, die in der kommunistischen Bewegung Japans politisiert wurden, zelebrieren die Errungenschaften menschlicher Arbeit und die Solidarität gegen Krieg und Kapitalismus. Artikel vom 18. September 2024: https://jacobin.de/artikel/studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas regelmäßig an uns spenden via www.jacobin.de/podcast. Zu unseren anderen Kanälen: Instagram: www.instagram.com/jacobinmag_de X: www.twitter.com/jacobinmag_de YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/JacobinMagazin Webseite: www.jacobin.de

Born in the pandemic lockdown of 2020, when Britain's restaurants had closed their doors, Jonathan Nunn founded the online newsletter Vittles, which rapidly established itself as the premier platform for exploring food cultures in Britain and around the world. Out of Vittles was born London Feeds Itself, a fascinating collection of essays written at the intersections of food, architecture, history, and demography. First published by Open City in 2022, London Feeds Itself now appears in a new edition in association with Fitzcarraldo.In this episode, Jonathan Nunn speaks about the project with architectural historian Owen Hatherley, whose essay ‘The Housing Estate' from the book serves as a springboard for the discussion.Get the book: https://londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/london-feeds-itself-jonathan-nunnFind more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/walking-the-streets-walking-the-projects-adventures-in-social-democracy-in-nyc-and-dc/A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future.In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time, it held that cities were at their best when they were driven from the bottom-up and when organic, unplanned processes were allowed to run their course, in a spontaneous “ballet of the street”. Cities were at their worst, however, when the state stepped in, demolishing lively old neighbourhoods and erecting giant, sterile, empty “projects”. This book uses the method of this ideology — walking — to test how true it actually is about the “capital of the twentieth century”, New York City, with a brief interlude in the capital, Washington DC.The “projects” that are walked in this book range from cultural complexes in Manhattan to New Deal-era public housing developments in Brooklyn, Harlem and Queens, from the social experiment of Roosevelt Island to Communist housing co-operatives in the Bronx, from the union-driven rebuilding of the Lower East Side to DC's magnificent Metro. For all their many flaws, they prove that Americans could, in fact, plan and build fragments of a better society, which survive and sometimes thrive today in one of the unequal places on earth. Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects takes a hard look at these enclaves, and asks what a new generation of American socialists might be able to learn from them.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books, https://twitter.com/RepeaterBooks

Wie Städte in Zukunft aussehen könnten – und welche Fehler wir besser nicht wiederholen sollten. Artikel vom 15. Juni 2020: https://www.jacobin.de/artikel/sozialismus-stadt-architektur-stadtplanung-wien-arts-and-crafts Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas regelmäßig an uns spenden via www.jacobin.de/podcast. Zu unseren anderen Kanälen: Instagram: www.instagram.com/jacobinmag_de X: www.twitter.com/jacobinmag_de YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/JacobinMagazin Webseite: www.jacobin.de

Um die Wohnungskrise zu lösen, müssen wir zurück in die Zukunft reisen. Artikel vom 08. März 2021: https://www.jacobin.de/artikel/wohnungsbau-wien-seoul-london-lewisham-sozialwohnung-wohnsiedlung-peter-barber Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas regelmäßig an uns spenden via www.jacobin.de/podcast. Zu unseren anderen Kanälen: Instagram: www.instagram.com/jacobinmag_de X: www.twitter.com/jacobinmag_de YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/JacobinMagazin Webseite: www.jacobin.de

The 2000s in Britain was a decade of education, regeneration, falling inequality and Dizzee Rascal. But beneath the fleeting prosperity lurked a culture of cruelty. It was palpable in politicians' disdain for single mothers, in the media's vilification of chavs, and in TV producers' obsession with pointing and laughing at just about everyone – but don't […]

Architecture critic, Owen Hatherley, discusses his book, Artificial Islands - Adventures in the Dominions which explores the legacy of British-designed cities - some of the most purely artificial landscapes in the world - and the ways in which cities like Melbourne and Auckland are today reimagining their own history.

Around 2010 I became somewhat obsessed with Japanese pop and ambient music of the 1980s - in particular the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the solo records of the members of the group: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi and music by Akiko Yano, Yasuaki Shimizu and Hiroshi Yoshimura amongst many others. Last year I discovered that this was an enthusiasm shared with architectural historian, and very occasional pop music writer, Owen Hartherley who has since written an article partially on the topic: https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/japan-at-number-one-ryuichi-sakamoto-s-riot-in-lagos Although much of the episode is on the music itself, we also touch on the politics - particularly how these artists were influenced by and reacting to the culture of the 1960s New Left, during the extraordinary economic boom of the 1980s, and how some of these musicians reintegrated the memory of 20th century Japanese imperialism in Asia into their music. If you'd like to explore some of the music we discuss in the episode you can find an accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eM8f2mq7vJYtYuTDq2EKW?si=7dd8d970fb8d4ad2 As well as tracks from the 80s, the playlist also includes some records from the folk rock era of the 1970s, as well as from Vaporwave and Future Funk genres - both of which were influenced by much of the 1980s work that Owen and I discuss. Unfortunately, there are plenty of fantastic records from this era that aren't currently available on the streaming services - including Akiko Yano's best work (especially the album Tadaima) Paradise of Replica by After Dinner, Ichiko Hashimoto's Beauty album, Miho Fujiwara's Heartbeat, Untotooku by Chiemi Manabe and the soundtracks to the animated films Akira and the Wings of Honnêamise amongst others. Do check those out too if you can - many of them are available on YouTube or to purchase from Bandcamp and other such outlets. Owen's article, 1980 in Parallax: Japan at Number One, Ryuichi Sakamoto's ‘Riot in Lagos': https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/japan-at-number-one-ryuichi-sakamoto-s-riot-in-lagos Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eM8f2mq7vJYtYuTDq2EKW?si=7dd8d970fb8d4ad2

Owen Hatherley joins the show to discuss his love of 1980s Japanese pop and ambient. Although much of the episode is on the music itself, we do touch on the politics - particularly how these artists were influenced by and reacting to the culture of the 1960s New Left, during the extraordinary economic boom of the 1980s, and how some of these musicians reintegrated the memory of 20th century Japanese imperialism in Asia into their music. Become a £5 PTO supporter to get access to this and all other episodes of PTO Extra! - https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

Architecture critic, Owen Hatherley, discusses his book, Artificial Islands - Adventures in the Dominions which explores the legacy of British-designed cities - some of the most purely artificial landscapes in the world - and the ways in which cities like Melbourne and Auckland are today reimagining their own history.

This week architecture critic Phin Harper steps in for Rachel Copel as host, and speaks to the author and journalist Owen Hatherley.They discuss the 11th hour attempt by Greenwich councillors to block the Silvertown tunnel development, three cases of systemic racism misogyny and discrimination which have appeared in the news this week, the East London pools struggling to stay afloat as demolition and closures loom, and finally Owen's new book 'Modern Buildings in Britain, a new Gazeteer'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A retrospective of the life and work of Sylvère Lotringer.Owen Hatherley on Zero: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/ze...Owen's other recent work:https://www.versobooks.com/books/3789...https://repeaterbooks.com/product/red...Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0booksOther links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizonMerch: crit-drip.comProfane IlluminationsTwitter: https://twitter.com/profaneshowThe Horror VanguardPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguardBuddies Without OrgansWebsite: https://buddieswithout.org/Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/

A "house on chicken legs” in Moscow designed by Viktor Andreyev, Virginia Woolf's novel Jacob's Room first published on 26 October 1922, Coal Cart Blues sung by Louis Armstrong drawing on his own experiences of pulling one round the streets of New Orleans where he started his teenage years living in a Home for Waifs; Duchamp's 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 are picked out as novelist Will Self, art historian and literary critic Alexandra Harris, jazz and music expert Kevin Le Gendre and architecture writer Owen Hatherley try to nail down the elements that make something modernist; looking at the importance of rhythm, the depiction of everyday life and new inventions, psychology and how you describe the self and utopian ideas about communal living. The presenter is New Generation Thinker and essayist Laurence Scott. Producer: Luke Mulhall Image: Will Self in BBC Broadcasting House, London Part of the modernism season running across BBC Radio 3 and 4 with programmes marking the publication in 1922 of Ulysses by James Joyce, a reading of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a Words and Music playlist of readings from key works published in 1922 and a Sunday Feature on Radio 3 looking at the "all in a day" artwork.

This week Camden is crowned the start up capital, heritage battles rage across the city, HS2 is part-dumped and TfL faces dire financial woes - yet three big names in the London architecture scene make it to the top of the rich list.... Owen Hatherley - the architecture writer, journalist and author of Red Metropolis; a polemical history of municipal socialism in London - joins Merlin in the studio.The Londown is produced in association with the Architects' Journal. If you enjoyed the show, we recommend you subscribe to the AJ for all the latest news, building studies, expert opinion, cultural analysis, and business intelligence from the UK architecture industry. Listeners can save 15% on a subscription using this link. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Owen Hatherley's Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Verso) argues for the city as a socialist project. Hatherley was in conversation with Juliet Jacques. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Owen joins PTO to respond to listener questions on our recent discussion on Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, a career spanning new collection of his writings. Become a £5 PTO supporter on patreon to get access to all episodes of PTO Extra! https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

This week, Riley, Milo, and Alice join special guest Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) of Tribune Magazine to discuss Barratt Homes: what is the deal with new-build housing in the UK? Why is it of such uniformly bad quality? And why has this become pretty much the only real new construction of homes in this country? Also in this episode: another re-discovered song from Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads. Owen's new collection Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism is available from Verso Books here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3789-clean-living-under-difficult-circumstances If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture Please consider donating to charities helping Palestinian people here: https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/palestine-emergency-appeal/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3oja5NbR8AIVSOmyCh2LdQ9rEAAYAiAAEgKM9PD_BwE and here: https://www.grassrootsalquds.net/ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

From the Great Exhibition of 1851 to Shanghai 2010, Owen Hatherley, Emily MacGregor and Paul Greenhalgh explore visions of the future offered by world's fairs and expos with Matthew Sweet. Emily MacGregor describes the row which blew up over music commissioned by William Grant Still for the 1939/40 New York World's Fair. Paul Greenhalgh tells us about world's fairs from London and Paris to Shanghai. Owen Hatherley describes visiting an expo in Kazakhstan. Owen Hatherley's new book is called Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism. He has made a film about the modernism represented in the buildings which house the London Czech and Slovak embassies as part of the London Festival of Architecture https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/ Paul Greenhalgh is the author of Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010. His latest book is Ceramic, Art & Civilisation. He is Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich and a Professor of Art History. Dr Emily MacGregor is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Music Department at King's College, London and is currently working on a project exploring The Symphony in 1933. You can hear more about the composer William Grant Still if you look up Composer of the Week Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find other programmes hearing from architects and exploring architecture on BBC Radio 3 this week including Words and Music and a Music Matters report on Bold Tendencies, who host concerts in a former car park in Peckham.

On the fourth anniversary of Grenfell, we're joined by Owen Hatherley, author and culture editor of Tribune magazine, to talk about the preventability of the tragedy, the deliberate machinations that obfuscate the fight for justice, and the lack of reckoning of the broader issues in the aftermath. Stay tuned for a condensed history of British social housing, the disaster of Right to Buy, an ongoing mess of local authorities and their various delegated bodies and contractors, and what the future might hold. /// SHOW NOTES /// /// CREDITS /// Hosts: Aarjan /// Nikita Guests: Owen Hatherley Production: Sarah Sahim Music: Cardio /// Christian Loeffler - Mosaics

Owen Hatherley joins PTO to discuss a new career spanning collection of his writings, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances. We talked about the early 2000s blogging scene as a reaction to New Labour, Owen's writings on music and how Black Box Recorder's work seemed to anticipate the world of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. And finally, we talked about Owen's review of K-Punk - the collected writings of Mark Fisher - and the strange phenomenon of American leftists seeing Fisher as a "class first" social democrat, shorn of his theoretical touchstones.

In 2020, writer Owen Hatherley published two books about London. One, Red Metropolis was a polemical history of municipal socialism in Britain's capital. The other, was an alternative guide to London's boroughs featuring 33 activists, historians, architects and politicians exploring stories and neighbourhoods from across each of the city's 33 boroughs. The alternative guide, which was commissioned by Open City, a charity best known for its London-wide festival of remarkable architecture Open House, attempts to unpick the social and political dimensions of London's built fabric while taking the reader on an adventurous journey encompassing everything from Brutalist Polish community centres to suburban garden cities, from pioneering modernist estates to ornate Victorian greenhouses. In this special event, Owen is joined by Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty, who wrote the alternative guide's chapter on the London borough of Haringey, and graphic designer Rosa Nussbaum to discuss contemporary London following the mayoral election, property development in Haringey and beyond, and wider themes of both books. The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs is available from the Open City online shop. Anyone who would like to get hold of a copy before this event can use the one-off discount code THEWORLDTRANSFORMED to get 40% off the cover price. The event will be introduced by Phineas Harper, architecture writer and director of Open City who commissioned the Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs and compered by Sam Swann from The World Transformed.

Bonus Episode. The podcast is taken from a live event we ran entitled 'Broken Cities: the Global Housing Crisis In Focus' in which Dr Deborah Potts and Prof Phil Hubbard spoke with Owen Hatherley, Editor at Tribune Magazine about the global housing crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How Britain Learned to Consume Austerity, with Owen Hatherley by The Corner Table Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In conversation with Owen Hatherley Writer and journalist Owen Hatherley joins TANK's Masoud Golsorkhi and Thomas Roueché to discuss his latest book, The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space. Published by Repeater, the book maps the complex legacy of the USSR almost 30 years after the end of history.

Mark Lilla could be called the conscience of liberal America. He talks to Anne McElvoy about life after identity politics. 2018 New Generation Thinker Gulzaar Barn discusses whether paying people for taking part in medical trials is different from other forms of "labour". Plus Owen Hatherley's latest book is called Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent. He discusses what makes a European city and who should take responsibility for shaping our urban environment whether its Hull or Thessaloniki with Deborah Saunt from DSDHA - who are working on new plans for the West End of London following the opening of Crossrail stations.Mark Lilla's new book, The Once and Future Liberal, is a ferocious analysis of the American left's abdication as well as a call to arms. The time for evangelism - of speaking truth to power is over, he says, now it's all about seizing power to defend truth. Gulzaar Barn lectures in philosophy at the University of Birmingham working on moral, political, and feminist philosophy. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into radio. You can find a collection of short columns reflecting their research on bbc.co.uk/FreeThinking Producer: Zahid Warley

Anne McElvoy looks at what happened to the Arab Spring five years on, talking to Egyptian novelist Alaa Al-Aswany - whose new novel is called The Automobile Club of Egypt - and to satirist and critic Karl Sharro. They will be joined by Lebanese actress Sahar Assaf talking about performing in Dario Fo and Franca Rame's monologue An Arab Woman Speaks. Also in the programme, Owen Hatherley discusses his latest book The Ministry of Nostalgia. And, lexicographer Tony Thorne and writer Hannah Jane Parkinson discuss how social media is affecting language. The English premiere of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's An Arab Woman Speaks is on at the New Diorama Theatre in London until 6th February. Producer: Luke Mulhall

Matthew Sweet discusses online identity theft and religious belief with American novelist Joshua Ferris, as he publishes his new novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. As the London Festival of Architecture opens with a debate on whether London needs more tall towers, Matthew talks to Sir Terry Farrell, Owen Hatherley, Nicholas Boys Smith, Angela Brady, about how London should look in the future. And we head to the Foundling Museum, whose latest exhibition marks the 250th anniversary of the death of William Hogarth to find out how artist Jessie Brennan has re-imagined ‘A Rake's Progress' without people, just a famous London tower block.