Comments on: Concrete Island (1974)

By: Concrete Islands in Japan | a Ballardian overview « arkinet

Concrete Islands in Japan | a Ballardian overview « arkinet — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:28:28 +0000

[...] J.G. Ballard’s 1974 novel Concrete Island, a wealthy man becomes stranded (his Jaguar breaks down, natch) in a fenced-off section of highway [...]

By: Mark Burgess

Mark Burgess — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:33:11 +0000

One of my favorites. Another book I would be happy to inhabit. Ballard was such an interior writer who paradoxically made sense of the exterior world better than anyone.

By: An interview with Nic Clear from the Ballardian « Void Manufacturing

An interview with Nic Clear from the Ballardian « Void Manufacturing — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:03:59 +0000

[...] For Manaugh, the ‘psycho spatial’ nature of ‘Ballardian space’ is best articulated by Concrete Island, High-Rise and Super-Cannes, which he has utilised to varying degrees as the cornerstones of [...]

By: My kind of town « Learning from Thames Valley

My kind of town « Learning from Thames Valley — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:35:09 +0000

[...] century bard, and much of his work explores the confluence of Arcadia and Californication. ‘Concrete Jungle’ or ‘Crash’ may seem extreme and unlikely to the casual reader but for those of us who [...]

By: Location Becomes Oxygen at Where 2.0 & WhereCamp | UgoTrade

Location Becomes Oxygen at Where 2.0 & WhereCamp | UgoTrade — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:48:14 +0000

[...] 3-letter airport codes, and Aaron pointed me to this brilliant “geo-detective work” on Concrete Island, by Mike Bonsall [...]

By: You and me and the Continuum-- Shouting to hear the echoes

You and me and the Continuum-- Shouting to hear the echoes — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:33:22 +0000

[...] read them, but the works he’d written that really resonated with me were stories like Concrete island (a businessman is stranded on an abandoned section of land beneath a motorway overpass), High-rise [...]

By: Concrete Island « Designism

Concrete Island « Designism — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:17:35 +0000

[...] Ballard, Concrete Island. « [...]

By: Helix paths: Leicester Holiday Inn « Walking Home to 50

Helix paths: Leicester Holiday Inn « Walking Home to 50 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:14 +0000

[...] but was mildly interested in the idea of a road-locked building. With memories of Ballard’s Concrete Island surfacing, I decided to circumnavigate the hotel as a [...]