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Klappentext Currently, the world is experiencing a 'perfect storm' of social, political, economic and ecological proportions. The full extent and severity of present conditions are yet to be determined. One thing, however, is certain: the foreseeable future will not be like the recent past. Leading analysts of all the major resource domains - water, food, material, energy and finance - are all telling us that our global industrial growth models, driven by speculation on unstable financial markets, are taking the planet to the brink of chronic scarcity. Some of these shortages are determined by natural limits of mineral resources, such as petroleum and coal, and others by the mismanagement of natural resources, such as water, timber and food; a situation that is often characterised by uneven social and geographic distribution of supplies. In architecture, concerns about depleting material and energy sources have largely been centered on the more emollient category of 'sustainability'. In the next decade, however, as the situation becomes more pressing, architects and designers will need to confront the reality of scarcity. There are many ways that architecture, urban planning and design research can tackle such issues: from developing new forms of analysis of global flows and scarcities, to specific local and global design-based solutions. A full engagement with these issues has the potential to completely reconfigure design practice in radically new, post-sustainable directions.* Brings together leading thinkers for the first time in a single volume: Ezio Manzini, Erik Swyngedouw, John Thackara and Jeremy Till.* Featured architects and designers include: Jody Boehnert, Katrin Bohn and André Viljoen, and muf. Zusammenfassung Leading analysts of all the major resource domains - water, food, material, energy and finance - are all telling us that our global industrial growth models are taking the planet to the brink of chronic scarcity. In architecture, concerns about depleting material and energy sources have largely been centered on the more emollient category of 'sustainability.' This book brings together leading thinkers for the first time in a single volume, including Ezio Manzini, Erik Swyngedouw, John Thackara and Jeremy Till. In addition, featured architects and designers include Jody Boehnert, Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen. Inhaltsverzeichnis 5 EditorialHelen Castle6 About the Guest EditorsJon Goodbun with Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova8 IntroductionThemes of ScarcityJon Goodbun, Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova16 Scarcity and Abundance: Urban Agriculture in Cuba and the USAndré Viljoen and Katrin Bohn22 Cities, Natures and the Political ImaginaryMaria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw28 Architecture and Relational Resources: Towards a New Materialist PracticeJon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke34 Visualising Ecological LiteracyJody Boehnert38 Invisible AgencyJeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider44 Systemic Diagramming: An Approach to Decoding Urban EcologiesUlysses Sengupta and Deljana Iossifova52 Flexibility and Ecological Planning: Gregory Bateson on UrbanismJon Goodbun56 Error-Friendliness: How to Deal with the Future Scarcest Resource: The Environmental, Social, Economic Security. That is, How to Design Resilient Socio-Technical SystemsEzio Manzini 62 Can an Urban Community Independently Run Its Own Waste Services?Clare Brass, Flora Bowden and Kate McGeevor66 Anthropocene NightsBenedict Singleton72 Peak Oil and Transition TownsRob Hopkins78 Everything We Need: Scarcity, Scale, HyperobjectsTimothy Morton82 Investing in the Ground: Reflections on Scarcity, Remediation and Obdurate FormDouglas Spencer88 Almost All Right: Vienna's Social Housing ProvisionAndreas Rumpfhuber, Michael Klein and Georg Kolmayr94 Icelandic InitiativesArna Mathiesen100 Beyond the Scarcities of Affluence: An 'Alternative Hedonist' ApproachKate Soper102 New York City (Stead...
