During the last four and half decades, 5-6 million people have been added to urban India every year. The country has one of the largest urban systems with 289 million in 2001, which is projected to increase to around 605-618 million during 2021-2025. However, the key urban concern is the growing gap between demand and [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Know Thyself
To face such a theme, in an economy class in an architecture school, I don’t feel suitable enough both as a student of the latter one, and even if I had deep bases of economic knowledge; it’s hard and annoying speaking as a single person in a moment like this, and it is likewise spending [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Giacomo Fiorani Comments closed
The 21st century is asked for a necessary rethink of how the design process is affecting the human habitat. Architecture, in its multifaceted concern and as discipline, has to reconsider the urban environment through its infrastructures, landscapes and buildings, and their many interdependencies within the context of natural and social ecologies. Buildings, infrastructures and the landscapes are [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Luca Gamberini Comments closed
place[less]ness
Instead of looking through impositions of the mainstream towards the discipline of architecture, today, it is essential to approach environmental problems in an alternative way including critical evaluations. The transition in development and transformation of environmental concepts in architecture and design disguises social and political shifts. Therefore it is not surprising that sustainability covering environmental, [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Sinem Samanci Comments closed
Architecture+Sustainability+Economics
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Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Juhi Pravin Patel Comments closed