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This book, the first by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the de­structive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. Here, Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam, and George Massoud explore how this has come about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated.Material Reform presents a set of instructive and challenging perspectives drawing directly on the dialogues and tensions Material Cultures encounter in their day-to-day work. Texts centred around key concepts including labour, time, maintenance, language, land, and touch are interwoven with a visual essay reckoning with the processes that have transformed industrialised landscapes at different scales of experience and resolution. Through text and visuals, con­cepts and practice, this book explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can help us find new languages with the potential to supersede those we have inherited from a narrow lineage of authors. These discursive threads come together to form a vital sourcebook for rethinking our relationships to materials, land, and development, in all their crucial intersections.

Building materials --- Construction --- Research --- Environmental aspects --- Matériaux --- Recherche --- Aspect de l'environnement --- 691 --- Bouwmaterialen (architectuur) --- Materialen (design) --- Architectuur en ecologie ; 21ste eeuw --- Architectuur; materialen --- Duurzame ; ecologische ; constructietechnieken --- Assemble ; Collectief rond architectuur, kunst en design --- Voetafdrukken ; energiegebruik ; energieketens --- Bouwmaterialen

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Croissance verte --- Development [Sustainable ] --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Développement durable --- Développement soutenable --- Développement viable --- Développement éco-responsable --- Développement économique durable --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development [Sustainable ] --- Economic sustainability --- Ontwikkeling [Duurzame ] --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Écodéveloppement --- Économie durable --- Économie soutenable --- Économie verte --- City planning. --- Sustainable development. --- Urbanisme --- Développement durable --- Sociology of environment --- Economic geography --- Urbanisme durable --- Développement économique --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Développement économique - Aspect de l'environnement

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Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes - climatic, geological, ecological and cultural - over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge - ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured sides of a huge canyon. Our perception of these patterns goes beyond just their visual appreciation - beautiful though they may be - into a richer understanding of how we experience our environment. By understanding this complex pattern-process interaction we can obtain a deeper awareness of landscape and our place in it - as inhabitants and as shapers. The book explores the nature of patterns and ways of classifying them before studying the nature of perception (primarily visual but including other senses), then proceeds to relate this perception to aesthetics and from there to the design process. From this point the main driving processes in landscape are introduced alongside the resulting patterns, these being climatic, landform, ecosystem and cultural aspects. It is this integrative approach of looking at landscape as a kind of self-organising system, overlaid by conscious human planning activities and the unity of pattern and process, which makes this book unique. Landscape draws from a wide range of neighbouring disciplines, of which the landscape planner or designer needs to be aware, but which are often taught as distinct elements. Bell binds these fundamentals together, which enables the landscape to be 'read', and this reading to be used as the basis for planning and design.

Ecological landscape design. --- Landscape assessment. --- Regional planning --- Aménagement paysager écologique --- Paysages --- Aménagement du territoire --- Environmental aspects. --- Evaluation --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Écologie du paysage --- Paysage --- Perception géographique --- Protection --- Philosophie --- Aspect environnemental --- Landschapsanalyse --- Landschapszorg --- Aménagement paysager écologique --- Aménagement du territoire --- Philosophie. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Perception géographique. --- Protection. --- Aspect environnemental. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Perception géographique.

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In the USA, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the discovery of a lost paradise to the mythology associated with the frontier. This text explores how such landscapes have been represented in the built environment of architecture & parks.

Architecture --- History --- Environmental aspects --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture, Modern --- Design and construction --- Histoire --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Environmental planning --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Ver. Staten van Amerika --- Architecture, Primitive --- United States of America

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What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern, author of the best selling Feminist City, travels from Toronto, New York, London, Paris and San Francisco and scrutinises the myth and lies that surround this most urgent urban crisis of our times. First observed in 1950s London, and theorised by leading thinkers such as Ruth Glass, Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin, this devastating process of displacement now can be found in every city and most neighbourhoods. Beyond the Yoga studio, farmer's market and tattoo parlour, gentrification is more than a metaphor, but impacts the most vulnerable communities. Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the crisis that seek to reveal the violence based on class, race, gender and sexuality. She argues that gentrification is not natural That it can not be understood in economics terms, or by class. That it is not a question of taste. That it can only be measured only by the physical displacement of certain people. Rather, she argues, it is an continuation of the setter colonial project that removed natives from their land. And it can be seen today is rising rents and evictions, transformed retail areas, increased policing and broken communities. But if gentrification is not inevitable, what can we do to stop the tide? In response, Kern proposes a genuinely decolonial, feminist, queer, anti-gentrification. One that demands the right to the city for everyone and the return of land and reparations for those who have been displaced.

Gentrification --- Urban policy --- Social aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- 711.4 --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Stedenbouw en samenleving --- Stadsontwikkeling ; mobiliteit ; economie ; sociologie --- Stedenbouw ; theorie ; 21ste eeuw ; sociologie ; problematiek --- 711.164 --- 711.13 --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; stadssanering --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; sociale geografie ; socio-economische aspecten ; stadsgeografie --- Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) --- Politique urbaine --- Aspect social --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Sociology of environment