Paradoxical Urbanism

Malcolm Miles is a writer on modern and contemporary culture, theory and urbanism. His research spans the humanities and social sciences, drawing on twentieth-century critical theory and more recent reconsiderations of the radical Left. He is author of Cities and Literature (2019), Cities and Culture (2007), and Limits to Culture (2015). He retired as Professor of Cultural Theory in the Architecture School, University of Plymouth in 2016.

• Chapter 1 Colliding Utopias.- Chapter 2 From Arcadia to Plotlands.- Chapter 3 Drawing a Line.- Chapter 4 The Contradictions of Modernism.- Chapter 5 Post-industrial Ruinscapes.- Chapter 6 An Urban Revolution?.