Modernity and Tradition: Contemporary Architecture in Pakistan (Jubilee Series)

Thông tin sách: Modernity and Tradition: Contemporary Architecture in Pakistan (Jubilee Series) (Hardcover, 150 trang) – Oxford University Press, 1999. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

This book explores contemporary issues of development and design relevant to cultures in transition. It challenges criteria for "progress" as measured in terms of material quantities, and argues that any assessment of the modernity paradigm as a strategy for development must take into account its collateral damage: the traumatized lives of countless individuals, impoverishment of whole communities, and a threatened global ecosystem.