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Concrete Cities : Why We Need to Build Differently
Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social and ecological consequences. Rob Imrie calls us to build less and to build better as a pre-requisite for enhancing welfare and well-being.
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Testimonial page -- Concrete Cities: Why We Need to Build Differently -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- About the Author -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Omnipresent Nature of Building -- 2 The Significance of Building and Construction -- Introduction -- Formative building and the imprint of construction -- Modernity and the scaling of building and construction -- Construction and the (re)production of waste -- Conclusion -- 3 Building and the Construction State -- Introduction -- Modernisation and building the nation state | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The political economy of building and the construction state -- Construction and the criminality of building cultures -- Conclusion -- 4 Speculation and Building Booms -- Introduction -- Speculator capitalism and the crafting of urban space -- Speculative real estate and the (re)production of investment portfolios -- Conclusion -- 5 Disruption, Displacement and Dispossession -- Introduction -- Unsettling settlement and the disruptive and displacing nature of building -- Building as the devaluation and displacement of communities -- Conclusion | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 6 Demolition: Wasting the City and Teardown Building -- Introduction -- The demolition paradigm -- Teardown and the consequences of demolition -- Rehabilitation and constructing for disassembly and reuse -- Conclusion -- 7 Why Building More Housing Will Not Work -- Introduction -- The case for building more houses -- Building more housing is not the panacea -- Conclusion -- 8 Building That Matters to People -- Introduction -- Disembodied by design and construction -- Constructing otherwise for inclusion: three examples -- Creating spaces of play and interaction with nature | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Breaking the box and the significance of organic building -- Constructing spaces to enhance mental health and well-being -- Conclusion -- 9 Constructing for Species Survival -- Introduction -- The unsustainable nature of building -- Construction and the fallacy of the green agenda -- Towards a construction that cares for the environment -- Conclusion -- 10 Building and Construction That Cares -- Introduction -- Crafting a built environment for use, not exchange -- Pandemic spaces and recrafting the built environment -- Towards a built environment that cares -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Index -- Back Cover | |
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