# Trans-Europe Express

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- Book: [Trans-Europe Express](https://www.bookquiver.com/owen-hatherley/trans-europe-express) ([Trans-Europe Express.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/owen-hatherley/trans-europe-express.md))
- Authors: [Owen Hatherley](https://www.bookquiver.com/owen-hatherley)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-596-1
- Published: 2018-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere. In Trans-Europe Express , Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it.