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Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021) Loot Price: R1,030
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Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Emilio Garcia, Brenda...

Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

Emilio Garcia, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale

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List price R1,223 Loot Price R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 | Repayment Terms: R97 pm x 12* You Save R193 (16%)

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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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Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: July 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Emilio Garcia • Brenda Vale • Robert Vale
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 310
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-077782-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration
Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > General
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Meteorology > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
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LSN: 3-03-077782-0
Barcode: 9783030777821

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