Critical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet / Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, editors ; Architekturzentrum Wien.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitz, Angelika, editor.

Krasny, Elke, 1965- editor.

Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Architecture.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition publications.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Architekturzentrum Wien ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Essays. Introduction. Critical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet / Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny

Care. Caring architecture / Joan C. Tronto ; Architecture and care / Elke Krasny

Ecology. Seychelles Islands idyll and the planning of Eden : speculating on creative ecologies / Hélène Frichot ; Practicing civic ecology : Venice and the lagoon / Jane Da Mosto ; Seeing and acting / Mauro Baracco, Louise Wright and Linda Tegg

Labor. Counter-conducts : politics of architecture and labor in Brazil / Ana Carolina Tontti and Ligia V. Nobre ; Affective economy : transitions to an ecological citizenship / Mauro Gil-Fournier ; Handling replacement : tending to a local library and repair center / Valeria Graziano and Kim Trogal

Economy. Speculations on architecting care beyond the anthropocene / Katherine Gibson ; The Favela Community Land Trust : a sustainable housing model for the global South / Theresa Williamson ; Towards a radical democratic politics of urban land : the case of (red) Vienna / Gabu Heindl ; The changing ways of being in common : from collective to common spaces in welfare housing / Meike Schalk, Sara Brolund de Carvalho and Helena Mattsson ; Architecture and urbanism for a broken planet: twenty-one case studies. Jintai Village Reconstruction ; Recovery of the Irrigation System at the Thermal Orchards ; Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust ; Friendship Centre ; Unidad de Vida Articulada Orfelinato, Uva de La Imaginacíon ; Ruskin Square ; Superblock Model ; Freie Mitte Nordbahnhof ; Care+Repair ; Mexus ; Sindh Flood Rehabilitation -100 Classrooms for Refugee Children ; Volontariat Home for Homeless Children ; PC Caritas ; SESC 24 de Maio ; Transformation of 530 Dwellings, Cité du Grand Parc ; Haus der Statistik ; R-Urban ; Kibera Public Space Project ; Didi Textiles; Rudrapur, Bangladesh ; Tofu Factory, Caizhai Village China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (April 24, 2019-Sept. 9, 2019), Architekturzentrum Wien."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780262536837

0262536838

OCLC:

1054375814

Publisher Number:

99980893361