The promises, dreams and hopes of architects for future cities are
now inextricably linked to climate change. Architects,
Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology
chronicles how architects have shaped their ideas of the city-and
sustainability-as knowledge of the climate emergency has unfolded.
Have architects responded to the climate crisis too slowly?
Describing a political ecology of architecture, Peter Raisbeck
draws on architectural history, theory and practice, and the
climate imaginaries of architects themselves. This exploration
indicates how architects have viewed the climate emergency and
positions architecture alongside the politics of climate and
development studies. Raisbeck questions to what degree the
traditional agency of architects leads to a political authority
isolated from nature, human-environment systems and the nonhuman
ecological subjects rapidly approaching tipping points. The
fluidity of the climate emergency itself and its unfolding
relationship to architectural knowledge suggests that new
approaches, agencies and subjectivities are urgently required. As
architects struggle to respond to the climate emergency, this book
is an important and timely contribution to sustainability, climate
and development debates. Architects, Sustainability and the Climate
Emergency: A Political Ecology is a necessary provocation of a
critical topic.
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