Crisis in the Built Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis in the Built Environment write by Jamel A. Akbar. This book was released on 1988. Crisis in the Built Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Crisis in the Built Environment
Crisis in the Built Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis in the Built Environment write by Jamel Akbar. This book was released on 2021-07-05. Crisis in the Built Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Is it not time to search for paradigms beyond capitalism and socialism? The book argues that interactions between the claims of “ownership”, “control” and “use” can elucidate crisis in our environments through measuring responsibilities. Levels of responsibility created by propeties’ and individuals’ rights developed by societal systems, shape our attitudes and actions in most realms of urban life such as utilization, maintenance, investments, etc. In this edition, further arguments were added such as the impossibility of achieving sustainability and justice within socialism or capitalism. In a letter of recommendation to Jamel Akbar, John Habraken, former chairman of the Department of Architecture at MIT stated: “I do not believe in all my years of teaching to have met another student who matched the combination of research skills and the ability for theoretical constructs that he brought with him to MIT.” Reviews of the first edition “Jamel Akbar has published an important contribution to the urban way of life in Muslim cities, as well as formulating and illustrating a research method for the study of architecture and urbanism in other societies and regions around the World.” Professor Roderich Lawrence, Open House International “This is an impressive work. Much has already been written about Islamic culture and urbanism but rarely has any study been as scholarly. …The significance of Akbar’s work lies in a vision of better awareness of the settlement process. In this sense, it is a major and definitive book.” Professor David Cosling, RIBA JOURNAL"
Scarcity in Excess
Scarcity in Excess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scarcity in Excess write by Arna Mathiesen. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Scarcity in Excess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a period of extraordinary economic growth at the turn of the twenty-first century, the economy of Iceland collapsed into the deepest and most rapid peacetime fiscal crisis ever recorded. Seeing the development of the capital area through the lens of scarcity, triggered new urban and regional questions and ecological approaches to design. This book considers both the crash and its aftermath as an opportunity to distil an intense snapshot of how ecological and human systems are interrelated, and how different ways of wiring those systems might lead to better and more resilient solutions. This publication derives from a case study on the built environment in the Reykjavik capital area in the light of the financial meltdown in October 2008. It is the work of the participants in the case study and a number of invited contributors from different fields; researchers, artists and activists that offer different perspectives on the case. The case study is a part of a larger European project, Scarcity and Creativity in the built Environment (SCIBE), funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). The work presented suggests a new spirit of development applicable to various cultures and climates beyond Iceland.
From Crisis to Crisis
From Crisis to Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Crisis to Crisis write by Nasrine Seraji-Bozorgzad. This book was released on 2018-12-31. From Crisis to Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors examine how reading, writing, and criticism can address the urgent issues faced by architecture as it is practiced, taught, and studied today. The publication is drawn from an international public symposium organized in the spring of 2017 by the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.
Planning in Crisis?
Planning in Crisis? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planning in Crisis? write by Walter Schoenwandt. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Planning in Crisis? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, a formidable gulf has opened up between planning theory and practice. Over the past four decades, planning academics have developed strong theories and created models to accompany and elucidate the planning process. However, many planning practitioners have resisted the notion that theory can play a positive role in the solution of concrete planning problems This volume provides a comprehensive overview of all the main planning theories and models, while also introducing an innovative new model and a set of tools. Modeled on the theories of Mario Bunge this dynamic new approach allows planners to achieve a better understanding of the complexities involved in the role of planners and their impact on the built environment.
