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041			_aeng
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100			_aFitz, Angelika (Ed)
245		0	_aCritical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet
260			_aCambridge, MA _bMIT Press _c2019
300			_a303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
500			_aThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a broken planet (April 24, 2019-Sept 9, 2019), Architekturzentrum Wien.
520			_aIncludes index.
520			_aToday, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public infrastructures. The climate crisis has rendered the planet vulnerable, even uninhabitable. This book offers an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. Rooted in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, in the midst of things, this edited collection of essays and illustrated case studies documents ideas and practices from an extraordinarily diverse group of contributors. Focusing on the three crisis areas of economy, ecology, and labor, the book describes projects including village reconstruction in China; irrigation in Spain; community land trust in Puerto Rico; revitalization of modernist public housing in France; new alliances in informal settlements in Nairobi; and the redevelopment of traditional building methods in flood areas in Pakistan. Essays consider such topics as ethical architecture, land policy, creative ecologies, diverse economies, caring communities, and the exploitation of labor. Taken together, these case studies and essays provide evidence that architecture and urbanism have the capacity to make the planet livable, again."
650			_aArchitecture--Environmental aspects
650			_aCity planning--Environmental aspects
700			_aKrasny, Elke (Ed)
710			_aArchitekturzentrum Wien
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