{"product_id":"architecture-and-progress-mark-blumberg-9781032767536","title":"Architecture and Progress: Exploring a Progressively Problematic Built Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built environment. It challenges the positive notion of progress, and the conception of progress and obstacle as a dichotomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor shapers of the world, finding 'the solution' is often a mark of progress that becomes embedded in culture, society, and history. Progress is ever-present. Through the exploration of diverse positions in history, theory, and practice, this book explores the potential utility of the progressively problematic rather than the natural tendency towards the progressively solved. Chapters draw on historic spaces, technological advancement, incorporation of the natural world, alterative production, and the consideration of human experience both sensory and psychological. Challenging the positive connotation of 'progress', the writings also explore reversing the notion of obstacle from disruptive anti-tool to obstacle of utilitarian method, a useful tool, pressing approach, and overarching value system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis will be interesting reading for upper-level students and scholars of Architecture, Urban Design, Philosophy, and Sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Blumberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032767537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032767536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs","brand":"Mark Blumberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48996946280703,"sku":"9781032767536","price":60.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/architecture-and-progress-mark-blumberg-9781032767536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}