{"product_id":"leadville","title":"Leadville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One afternoon in January 1995, as I drove along Western Avenue, I did what I had never done before: i parked the car in a side-street and walked on to the road...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLeadville\u003c\/i\u003e, Ed Platt tells the story of Western Avenue from the optimism of its construction in the 1920s to its partial demolition seventy years later. It is a tale of the city and the traffic, of suburbia and the dreams of its inhabitants, and of our senseless and all-consuming love affair with the motor car.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Platt has created a drama that is not only Orwellian in its attention to what you might call the state of the nation . . . but almost Dickensian in the recording of the colour and pathos of its inhabitants' Tim Lott, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54235815739736,"sku":"9780330392631","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780330392631_ca64eca9-eec8-4daf-bade-ea555ca3e5cf.jpg?v=1778568314","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/leadville","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}