At this time suspended between a building boom that is leaving out quite a few issues at stake and hopes for a new boom supported by regional standards of house plans, perhaps you can ask for really urgent matters to the attention ensure the survival of our cities. In the city
intertwine two great systems of the technological infrastructure, objects, services and collecting all the biological life forms, from viruses to humans via parasites, and pets, weeds and green organized. Think of this plot to isolate individual problems to be solved separately from the system is useless and often harmful.
take a concrete example: waste. Meanwhile, it should be noted a mockery of the word ecology in the matching language with the word waste as there is no waste in the ecosystem, as the waste of one species becomes food for other species. The fungi that break down the biomass again by providing the basic necessities, are real ecological operators, not the collection services and storage for eternity urban garbage. The theme of waste we need to understand how complex issues faced by the fund have no solution, a society based on production and consumption will always produce huge amounts of waste.
Without a reduction of waste in a progressive way, but until zero, there will be no solution. This can only be done by organizing the re-use, thus eliminating the throw-away, and with an economy of recycling, so that until the last piece, the last screw or last chips to be demolished then recirculate the primary elements . In this logic there is no need for landfills or incinerators, but to invent the "mushroom technology" devoted to the dismantling and recovery.
throwaway consumerist model has widespread flooding and affecting the city, the house has become an object for sale, like the automobile, and is not designed as a place to live. Since the house is a subject of "property" the continuous market supply of new homes leads to unbridled consumption of land, agriculture, and subtracted to the biological system in general, and the generation of waste properties that will remain long in memory of an era nonsense.
Our cities, at least in the Northeast, have a very long time a stable population, supported by immigration, otherwise we would fall in the population. Common sense says no increase in population? No new homes! It 'important to restore the economy, finance, the construction industry in this reality principle. There is no escape from the crisis by increasing the number of houses, sheds, roads, roundabouts, but working on the quality, I am happy if it is easier to restructure, I worry if this will bring the uncontrolled growth of metastases architectural pop up here and there, ugly empty elements, ie they will be destined to remain empty and worsen the urban aesthetic.
Today, thinking of new plans, it is necessary to reiterate the importance of the block total, absolute, of any construction on virgin land, agricultural or wild to be. In fact I will say more, I think a good plan today is to provide the scientific demolition, targeted, quality. It would not hurt that every new build is accompanied by a cubic meter cubic meter demolished and returned to the biological system, for each manufacturer takes a breaker like in nature. Viva mushrooms then, the biological ones to eat and technological ones not yet invented.
