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"This work is about being held accountable for your actions, and
the understanding that you will have to answer for them."
The inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to
determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise
everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth
of illegal settlements. In rapidly expanding cities, issues of
continuity with local traditions, local conditions and local ways
of working are juxtaposed with those of abrupt change due to
emergency, reaction to modernity, environmental degradation, global
market forces and global technological imperatives to make efforts
to control by physical planning redundant as soon as they are
enacted. In most third world cities there is little social welfare
and almost no attempt at social housing. The urban poor must still
house themselves with little or no state help to procure land or
infrastructure. Not having a legal existence, 'slums' are
automatically swept away to create a 'tabula rasa' prior to a
complete new build for those who can afford the full cost. The
notion of upgrading the existing built environment, has hardly
entered the official planning vocabulary. Since 2002, both Diploma
and latterly Degree students from London Metropolitan University
Department of Architecture and Spatial Design have produced schemes
from research work generated during an annual field trip to India.
Work is focused on situations where rapid cultural and technical
change is affecting traditional or transitional communities who
have access to only limited resources. Sites have included post
earthquake desert locations in Gujarat, under-serviced urban slums
in Delhi, dense traditional city landscapes in Meerut and the
integration of Marwari nomads into a settlement in Agra. This has
proved a stimulating and provocative academic learning environment
producing a range of innovative work. Some of the students involved
have been awarded RIBA medals and other prestigious student prizes.
In the course of this enterprise, links with Indian non-government
organisations and architectural schools have devel
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Ant Cities (Paperback, New edition)
Arthur Dorros, written, illustrated Arthur Dorros; Illustrated by Arthur Dorros
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R229
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Discovery Miles 1 800
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Did you know that ants have jobs? Ants may not look like they are doing anything important, but each ant that lives in a hill has a special job, whether it is cleaning the nest, digging new tunnels or gathering food. And in each ant city there is a queen ant who is busy laying eggs. In this popular Stage 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book, Arthur Dorros explores the fascinating and complex ways in which these industrious insects work together to keep their ant cities alive. A Reading Rainbow Selection
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987 (NSTA/CBC)
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Seymore's Eagles (Paperback)
Illistrated by Tracy Pfeifer Hall, Written by Friends of Caesar Creek Natu
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R257
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