{"product_id":"donovan-wylie-housing-plans-for-the-future-by-donovan-wylie-9783958294882","title":"Donovan Wylie: Housing Plans for the Future","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the latest of Donovan Wylie's books with Steidl that explore the architecture of the Northern Ireland conflict. While Wylie's earlier publications, including \u003cem\u003eBritish Watchtowers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMaze\u003c\/em\u003e (on Belfast's Maze prison), document disappearing military structures, \u003cem\u003eHousing Plans for the Future\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the legacy of architectural containment in urban areas today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWylie took these photos during walks through a number of social-housing neighbourhoods in inner-city Belfast, which look eerily similar. While the built environments at first appear benign, even mundane, sustained looking reveals how they purposely control vision and movement. Walls block vehicle access, houses are inverted to face away from neighbouring communities and minimise potential antagonism, and excessive street lighting ensures visibility in what Wylie calls \"a prison of sorts... a completely thought-through system of social control.\" These defensive structures, built in the 1970s and '80s and still populated today, are a powerful and largely unrecognised legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460706910444,"sku":"9783958294882","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958294882-donovan-wylie-housing-plans-for-the-future.jpg?v=1774951177","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/donovan-wylie-housing-plans-for-the-future-by-donovan-wylie-9783958294882","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}