{"product_id":"re-scaling-the-environment","title":"Re-Scaling the Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1960–1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly, architects and planners saw themselves as designers of comprehensive infrastructure and mega-structures in a technology-focused world. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors assesses these developments on the back of a knowledge transfer between East and West. It confirms a change in attitude that can still be felt today – recession, social changes, and environmental problems led to criticism of the then contemporary concepts of modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birkhauser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221291716952,"sku":"9783035610161","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783035610161.jpg?v=1752156929","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/re-scaling-the-environment","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}