A city is like an organism -it is living- it metabolizes our activities, grows, responds to changes, transforms, and may even degenerate. All these terms are assigned to describe very specific urban phenomena strongly suggesting that a city must be perceived as an organic whole: i.e. greater than the sum of its parts. Therefore, architects [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
ARCHITECTURE AND HAPPINESS
Happiness is a very abstract concept, and every time changes. What makes happy a person doesn’t make happy another one. I have seen thousand of architecture projects that tend to solve big deals in the world, defining strategies, which are expected to produce a certain benefic effect in people. But at the end, most [...]
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City of people
Rethinking the relationships between the city’s infrastructure, the flow and expression of people is questioning human habitat and human identity itself. Does the answer lie in buildings? It depends on how they’re defined in the 21st century. Perhaps the answer is in the concept of sustainability: if something is durable, it has no attachment (or [...]
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Human nature VS evolution
Tending to believe that what is financial profitability is not equivalent to economic feasibility is not something unreasonable. Humans are greedy, as all animals are. It is an embedded human instinct to follow what is best for your own survival, disregarding others. It is, sadly, verified throughout history by the outcome of every applied [...]
Posted in Dimitrios Aidonis, Economics of Sustainability, Uncategorized Comments closed
City as a Machine ||
Although sustainability is now generally understood to be a combination of environmental, social and economic performance, this report finds that economic sustainability is the most elusive component of the triple bottom line approach. There is not even universal consensus that businesses should be economically sustainable, though most concur that sustainability is desirable to prevent the [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Richard Aoun Comments closed