To convince you to read Ian Nairn, the great sui generis British architectural critic, I give you the front cover and back cover blurbs of the re-released Outrage, which details Nairn’s voyage through Britain’s suburbia—what he calls, “Subtopia.” He defines this as “a mean and middle state, neither town nor country, an even spread of abandoned aerodromes and fake rusticity, wire fences, traffic roundabouts, gratuitous notice-boards, carparks and Things in Fields.”