"Knock 'em Down, Make 'em Bigger"
Wasted Space. It's everywhere- look around wherever you are right this instant and you will find it, provided you're not in student housing.
Wasted Resources. Take a look at your garbage can. What's in there? Could you have reused any of it? Did you really need to have it in the first place?
Sustainability. Expensive; necessary. The only way to look at future architecture.
DON'T knock 'em down, then- fix 'em up; DON'T make 'em bigger, make them better, more efficient...
Picture courtesy of: http://www.hpsupplies.info/images/Lo-Landfill.jpg
Julie Brand: "40% of what's in landfills comes from buildings."
There has to be a better way to live than this, yea? I thought so too. Check out this website: http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/01/13_helmsm_jacksonmeadow/
Sustainable housing and design are big issues in this century. Education is a key in this process of transforming society. What's frustrating to me, then is during this process we hit roadblocks of ignorance. Our own peers, young people, not understanding the importance of environmental education/ application! Absurd, but commonplace.
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