Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Fitz, Angelika
• Krasny, Elke, 1965-
• Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Description

303 pages; 24 cm

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.

Subjects

• Architecture > Environmental aspects
• City planning > Environmental aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JQE 19-567

ISBN

• 9780262536837
• 0262536838

OCLC

1054375814

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fitz, Angelika, editor.

Krasny, Elke, 1965- editor.

Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Research Call Number

JQE 19-567