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Title: Concrete Cities: Why we need to build differently
Author: IMRIE ROB
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 26/10/2021
Imprint: BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building.
Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane, and nature-focused culture of construction.
This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.
ISBN: 9781529220520
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm