Collapsing gracefully : making a built environment that is fit for the future

Collapsing gracefully : making a built environment that is fit for the future / Emilio Garcia, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale.

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic...

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Main Authors: Garcia, Emilio (Author), Vale, Brenda (Author), Vale, Robert (Robert James Dennis) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Subjects:
Sustainable urban development.
Sustainable buildings > Design and construction.
Sustainable buildings > Design and construction
Sustainable urban development
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Table of Contents:
  • What Do We Mean by Collapsing Gracefully?
  • Current Ideas for Future Built Environments
  • What Can We Learn From the Collapse of Societies in the Past?
  • The Modern Built Environment and its Relationship to Collapse
  • Technology and Collapse
  • A Case Study of Technology and Climate Change
  • Inequality, Collapse and the Built Environment
  • Inequality in the Urban Landscape of New Zealand: From the Country to the Plot
  • Growth and Collapse
  • Growth and Resources
  • Epidemics, Pandemics, and Collapse
  • The Architecture of Wealth
  • What Should We Do?

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