Does architecture stimulate value in growth analysis?

Project Legacy Hospital designed to withstand flood risks, by Doug Paris.

Project Legacy Hospital designed to withstand flood risks, by Doug Paris.

This paper aims to acknowledge and decipher the discourse between two very different languages for purposes of a mutual understanding, bridging spatial terms between economists and architects (and similar urban design and planning professions).

In addition the driving factors of economic growth of human activities, through risk awareness and mitigation enables a framework that promotes spatial implications.

It appears to facilitate the architectural role of form-finding and boundary-making undertakings. This paper will focus on emerging market, developing countries.

 

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Does/ could architecture stimulate economic growth? (Economics & Sustainability)

 

References:

- Human Development Report: Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience,  UNDP 2014

- Risk and Opportunity: Managing Risk for Development, World Bank 2013.

- On Rationality and Foreign Policy: The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Doesn’t Know Soviet History [Forbes],  http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2012/01/13/on-rationality-and-foreign-policy-the-foundation-for-the-defense-of-democracies-doesnt-know-soviet-history/

- Luxury Wars: Explaining the Value of a $70,000 Watch [Forbes],  http://www.forbes.com/sites/valeriejack/2014/11/17/luxury-wars-explaining-the-value-of-a-70000-watch/2/

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/files/gsapp/imceshared/Conference%20Program.pdf

 

 

 

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