Part 1 of Essay
Television programmes, such as 'Changing Rooms' and lifestyle magazines such as 'Living etc' suggest criteria for designing your own individual space and are becoming ever more popular. For instance the increase of the number of home interest titles published has increased from 17 in 1993 to 27 in 1999 (MINTEL, 24/06/98 p ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... new ones; whether the general public has no more desire to decorate their homes; where this growth in the market for designing your own home interiors initially came from. But ultimately the aim is to investigate whether these interior style magazines and television programmes are doing social engineering by suggesting 'lifestyles' to which we (the general public) have to conform. Therefore previous approaches to social engineering through architecture in the 20-century, by architects such as Le Corbusier and Fr ....