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If what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate, then by the end of the century Great Britain will consist of isolated oases of preserved monuments in a desert of wire, concrete roads, cosy plots and bungalows…Upon this new Britain the Review bestows a name in the hope that it will stick—subtopia.
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Ian Nairn
Born:
November 9, 1930
Died:
August 15, 1983
(aged 52)
Bio:
Ian Douglas Nairn was a British architectural critic who coined the word ‘Subtopia’ to indicate drab suburbs that look identical through unimaginative town-planning.
Known for:
Nairn's London. (1966)
Nairn's Towns (1967)
Surrey (1962)
Sussex (1965)
Your England Revisited (1964)
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