When a simple moment in a bar can become a powerful spatial parable
Ian Nairn at the pub: ‘your bar is the rest of the audience, the bar counter is the stage’
Author Archives: Ian Nairn
Green mantle: Hampshire’s green belt
The progenitor of Outrage records the birth of a green belt around the growing cities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth
Outrage: the birth of Subtopia will be the death of us
The introduction to the original ‘Outrage’, published in the AR in June 1955: anonymous development and the creation of Subtopia takes us to the edge of the abyss
Ian Nairn’s Subtopia, from June 1955
This extract comes from the conclusion of Ian Nairn’s ‘Outrage’ in the AR June 1955. His manifesto for ‘the main-in-the-street’ is a searing critique of suburbia – or ‘Subtopia’ – which is as relevant now as it was when it was published
