{"product_id":"9781138131309","title":"Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism","description":"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.\u003cbr id=\"CRLF\"\u003e\u003cbr id=\"CRLF\"\u003eHow 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.\u003cbr id=\"CRLF\"\u003e\u003cbr id=\"CRLF\"\u003eNon-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. \u003cbr id=\"CRLF\"\u003e\u003cbr id=\"CRLF\"\u003e\u003cbr id=\"CRLF\"\u003eList 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.","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48729018269931,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":512.73,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781138131309-1.jpg?v=1781657192","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781138131309","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}