Long-term morphological change in UK building stocks suggests that industrialisation and division of labour initially stimulated diversity among process-specific buildings. Latterly, process-specific buildings may have lost some prominence to non-process-specific ones. Possible causes for this change include intensified time preference, risk aversion, asset utilisation, and technological change. Relative decline in demand for process specificity seems likely to accelerate marginalisation of designers.
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