TY - BOOK ID - 46261673 TI - Critical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet AU - Fitz, Angelika AU - Krasny, Elke PY - 2019 SN - 9780262536837 0262536838 9780262352871 0262352877 PB - Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - City planning KW - 72:574 KW - Architectuur en ecologie ; 21ste eeuw KW - Ecologische stedenbouw en architectuur KW - Klimaatsverandering ; oplossingen KW - Environmental aspects KW - Architectuur en ecologie KW - Duurzame architectuur en stedenbouw ; 21ste eeuw KW - Architecture and climate. KW - City planning. KW - Climatic changes. KW - Infrastructure (Economics). KW - 71 KW - 504 KW - 72 KW - 711.4 KW - Ruimtelijke ordening / Stedenbouw / Landschapsarchitectuur KW - Duurzame architectuur KW - Duurzame stedenbouw KW - Architectuur KW - Stedenbouw (theorie) KW - 711.4:504 KW - Développement durable KW - Changement climatique KW - Environnement KW - Environmental aspects. KW - durability KW - Urbanisme KW - Aspect de l'environnement KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - sustainable architecture KW - Architecture - Environmental aspects KW - City planning - Environmental aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46261673 AB - How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, 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. ER -