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 scenarios. It is about
understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is
inevitable, but in the built environment collapse could imply a
manageable situation, an opportunity for change or a devastating
reality. Collapsing gracefully means that there might be better
ways to coexist with collapse if we learn more about it and commit
to rebuild our civilisations in ways that avoid its worst effects.
This book uses a wide range of practical examples to study critical
changes in the built environment, to contextualise and visualise
what collapse looks like, to see if it is possible to buffer its
effects in places already collapsing and to propose ways to develop
greater resilience. The book challenges all agents and institutions
in modern cities, their designers and planners as well as their
residents and users to think differently about built environment so
as to ease our coexistence with collapse and not contribute to its
causes. .
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