Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Notting Hill Editions to give away 10 copies of a collection of essays by Ian Nairn.
Nairn's Towns is an updated version of Ian Nairn's Britain's Changing Cities essays, first published in 1967. Edited by Dezeen Opinion writer Owen Hatherley, it was reissued in 2013 but is now also available in paperback.
For the new book, Hatherley has written a detailed introduction, in which he describes Nairn as "arguably the finest, and one of the best known English architectural writers of the 20th century".
Nairn's Towns is an updated version of Ian Nairn's Britain's Changing Cities essays, which is now available in paperback
Notting Hill Editions reissued the series in response to a continuing public fascination with the controversial era of 1960s architecture and urban planning. The collection is made up of 16 essays that assess historic townscapes, as well as reviews of new buildings. Cities explored include Glasgow and Norwich, Llanidloes and Sheffield.
The book explores the 1960s architecture and urban planning in English cities, including Birmingham's Bull Ring Centre
"Hatherley can dish it out with the best of Nairn when it comes to detailing the dreadful regeneration programmes, empty civic boosterism, shoddy shopping malls, PFI hospitals, and cheap volume house-building schemes, which have continued to blight these towns and cities since the 1960s," said the publishers.

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