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Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism - Essays On Freedom, Participation And Change In Modern Architecture And Urbanism (Hardcover)
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Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism - Essays On Freedom, Participation And Change In Modern Architecture And Urbanism (Hardcover)
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Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their
environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of
'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and
architectural inertia have ranged from free-market enterprise
zones, to self-build housing, and from squatting to sophisticated
technologies of prefabrication. Yet all have shared in a desire to
let people shape the built environment they want to live and work
in. How can buildings better reflect the needs of their
inhabitants? How can cities better facilitate the work and
recreation of their many populaces? Modernism had promised a
functionalist approach to resolving the architectural needs of the
twentieth-century, yet the design of cities and buildings often
appears to confound the needs of those who use them - their design
and layout being highly regulated by restrictive legislation,
planning controls and bureaucracy. Non-Plan considers the
theoretical and conceptual frameworks within which architecture and
urbanism have sought to challenge entrenched boundaries of control,
focusing on the architectural history of the post-war period to the
present day. This provocative book will be of interest to
architects, planners and students of architecture, design,
town-planning and architectural history. Its contributors include
architects, critics and historians, including many whose work
helped shape the Non-Plan debate during the period. List of
contributors: Cedric Price, Benjamin Franks, Elizabeth Lebas,
Eleonore Kofman, Ben Highmore, Yona Friedman, Paul Barker, Clara
Greed, Barry Curtis, Colin Ward, Ian Horton, John Beck, Chinedu
Umenyilora and Malcolm Miles.
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