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Concrete Cities: Why We Need to Build Differently

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Author/EditorImrie, Rob (Visiting Professor in Sociol (Author)
Publisher: Bristol University Press
ISBN: 9781529220520
Pub Date26/10/2021
BindingPaperback
Pages298
Dimensions (mm)234(h) * 156(w)
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.
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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.

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.

Rob Imrie was previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London and retains a Visiting Professorship there. He has published widely on issues relating to architecture, urban design, and urban politics and regeneration.

Introduction: The Omnipresent Nature of Building The Significance of Building and Construction Building and the Construction State Speculation and Building Booms Disruption, Displacement and Dispossession Demolition: Wasting the City and Teardown Building Why Building More Housing Won't Work Building That Matters to People Constructing for Species Survival Building and Construction That Cares

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