{"product_id":"governing-by-design-aggregate-9780822961789","title":"Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoverning by Design\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed \"governmentality\"-societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols-as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aggregate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822961784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822961789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Aggregate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926547366143,"sku":"9780822961789","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8d2eec59-20de-42bb-b246-fe9164607f3a.jpg?v=1681083678","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/governing-by-design-aggregate-9780822961789","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}