Jonathan Meades - Abroad in Britain

Abroad Again: On the Brandwagon (5x2)

Date de diffusion: Mai 16, 2007

The Liverpool garden festival gave us the word 'regeneration'. Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao combined with this to create a fashion. Every city wanted a slice of regeneration and used 'landmark' buildings to get it. Jonathan Meades ponders this expensive craze and the effects of supposedly regenerated inner cities.