Transforming Urban Spaces
Innovative solutions for modern city living.
Transforming Urban Spaces
Innovative solutions for modern city living.
Innovative solutions for modern city living.
Innovative solutions for modern city living.
This site is part of the Environmental Concern Collective. The collective has a primary site https://envirometnalconcerncollective.org. That site deals with the general concerns about climate change and the focus on putting together procedures and protocols to help communities deal with the variety of issues arising from the changing climate. This web page is set up to deal with one of the major concerns a need to re-house many communities. You see on the navigation section of the Home page the divisions. We want to get a dialog going on how to re-house communities and in regard for that we have sections on our concerns, a section on our designs and a section on designs submitted by others. We also have a section devoted to the new developments in construction techniques , developments in construction materials as well a section listing books and publications for more information.
The photographs below are basic history of human urban developments. Humanity has gone through many designs of cities this web page exists to explore new ways to house communities.
“These disasters will serve as reckonings for a society that has attempted to tame the forces of nature while leaving the provision of shelter to the whims of the market.” ― Jake Bittle, The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
The world’s squatters offer different way of looking at land. Rather than treating it as an economic value, squatters live according to a more ancient notion: the idea that every person has a natural right, simply by virtue of being born, to have a home, a place, a location in the world, Their way of dealing with land offers the possibility of a more equitable city and a more just world.
SHADOW CITIES -a billion squatters, a new urban world by Robert Neuwirth
Cities have become our nests. One influential study of social animals argues that fro a species to get the full benefit of social living, it needs to build nests.
THE LIVE AND DEATH OF ANCIENT CITIES – a natural history by Fgreg Woolf
Cities are not sustainable. They stand in the front line of environmental disaster; they will bear the brunt of its effects, along with the vast majority of the human race that lives in them. Climate change is an urban problem : as such , it calls for urban solutions.
URBAN JUNGLE- the history and future of nature in the city by Ben Wilson
The city can be messy, unequal, often violent for sure. But it’s still a space and maybe the only space, in which the moral and political goods of the late-modern world are not only available but even imaginable in the first place. There is something worth protecting about the city as it is now, about our ability to think and build and plot collectively, our drive to improve our situation materially, our capacity to actually impose ourselves, and our ideas, and our homes, our lives, on the material world around us.
THE LIVING CITY – why cities don’t need to be Green to be Great
by Des Fitzgerald
And so our conversion to a city-planet is by no means irreversible. The very forces that propelled the urban revolution in the first place -the scale and disconnectedness of dense urban living-could be turned against us. Rogue viruses or weapons could once again turn urban areas into sites of mass death and terror.
THE GHOST MAP – the story of London’s most terrifying epidemic-and how it changed science, cities and the modern world -Steve Johnson
Climate-driven movements are adding to a massive migration already under way to the world’s cities. The number of migrants has doubled globally over the past decade, and the issue of what to do about rapidly increasing populations of displaced people will only become greater and more urgent as the planet heats
NOMAD CENTURY – how climate migration will respect our world
Gaia Vince
The researchers show that, depending on scenarios of population growth and warming,”1 to 3 billion people are projected to be left outside the climate conditions that have served humanity well over the past 6,000 years.
NOMAD CENTURY – how climate migration will respect our world
Gaia Vince
Achieving safe settlement for hundreds of millions of migrants could require the compulsory purchase by international consensus of land held by current states, with compensation and a stake in the new cities and their industries. It could require a new kind of international citizenship.
NOMAD CENTURY – how climate migration will respect our world
Gaia Vince