Spontaneous Cities: Lessons to Improve Planning for Housing

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dc.contributor.authorSalingaros, Nikos A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-03T16:49:11Z
dc.date.available2021-06-03T16:49:11Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-19
dc.descriptionhttps://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/5/535en_US
dc.description.abstractThe world can learn two key lessons from spontaneous settlements: (i) design so as to adapt to human biology; and (ii) design to save energy. Timeless processes of urban growth and sustainability have forced societies to conserve energy. Yet, nowadays, a profession focused on design ideology and short-term profit discredits many economical and effective long-term design methods. Decision-makers, politicians, and urbanists talk of energy conservation while continuing to use failed notions of industrial urbanity in place of documented solutions that work. Most damaging is the myopic academic elite’s fixation on an unsustainable industrial-modernist visual vocabulary of minimalist forms. By promoting typologies based on images dating from the 1920s, instead of using scientific analysis, the industry serves extractive global imperialism rather than satisfying the world’s population needs. We should instead learn from how self-builders adapt form, geometry, materials, surfaces, and ornament to maximize the user’s emotional experience in an otherwise extremely challenging environment.en_US
dc.description.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.description.departmentMathematicsen_US
dc.identifier.citationSalingaros, N. A. (2021). Spontaneous Cities: Lessons to Improve Planning for Housing. Land, 10(5), 535.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/615
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLand;10(5)
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States*
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States
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dc.subjecthuman-centered designen_US
dc.subjectinformal citiesen_US
dc.subjectspontaneous settlementsen_US
dc.subjectorganic growthen_US
dc.subjectsustainabilityen_US
dc.subjecturbanismen_US
dc.subjectplanningen_US
dc.subjecthuman-centered design
dc.subjectinformal cities
dc.subjectspontaneous settlements
dc.subjectorganic growth
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjecturbanism
dc.subjectplanning
dc.titleSpontaneous Cities: Lessons to Improve Planning for Housingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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