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'Highly readable and informative ... a seminal work for those following the patterns of aid and trade and technological development today' Financial Times

About the Author

Victor Papanek was a highly distinguished designer, educator, lecturer and writer, widely acknowledged for
his visionary ideas on design theory. He was J. L. Constant Distinguished Professor at the School of
Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas at the time of his death in 1998.

Reviews

'Wonderfully alive, and full of examples to instruct, amuse and horrify' - New Scientist