Robert Bevan's book is remorselessly bleak. It portrays humanity as a monstrously brutal, malevolent species, that throughout its history has constantly resorted to mass murder and policies of deliberate extermination to allow one group to dominate another. Bevan is asking us to think about a big subject that is outside our normal perspectives, but one which is as all-pervasive as the climate. What makes us pause from our conventional round of activities and consider the propositions in these pages is that Bevan is rooting his analysis in something that concerns us as professionals every day of our working lives: buildings.
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