On Architecture and the Greenfield - The Political Economy of Space Vol. 02

In the face of the ongoing climate emergency, can humanity keep chipping at its food sheds via urbanization? This is the paradoxical question raised by residential forms of urbanization: On the one hand, housing settlements across the world devour thousands of hectares of arable fields at the periphery of growing cities. On the other hand, housing is a human right. This publication investigates these complexities. After On Architecture and Greenwashing (2024), it is the second volume in the series The Political Economy of Space and presents a cross-section of positions on architecture and its political economies from different perspectives.

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The Land Upon Which We Build - Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Land, Property, Colony - Andrew Herscher and Ana María León
Capitalist Urbanization and Agrarian Questions: A Very Brief Primer - Swarnabh Ghosh
Against the Ruralization of the Amazon: The Forest as Architectural Heritage - Paulo Tavares
Eclipse: Beyond the City Design across Center-Periphery - Milica Topalovi
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