A new urbanity has been gradually defined by new environmental and landscape qualities with a higher respect and consideration of local territories and identities. New temporal regimes have been identified by new work life and social attitudes. The scarcity of non-renewable energy, economic change and new lifestyles enhanced a more conscientious ecological awareness. This generated a complex change in the way of thinking and living the territory, the landscape and the city. Contemporary cities – facing difficult decisions about scarce resources and investments – strive for urban and ecological efficiency. In recent years, it is increasingly evident how the ecosystems function, “ecological thinking across the scales of inquiry and application has moved toward a more organic model of open-endedness, flexibility, resilience and adaptation, and away from a mechanistic model of stability and control.” (Reed, Lister 2014). The essay aims to offer the documented registration of this phenomenon in progress, in order to redefine urban elements imagining them as latent public spaces, relational engines and ecological devices and outlining specific resilient strategies for a development integrating new urban models, social needs and risk prevention strategies. It also introduces the monograph volume of REDS. Resilient Ecological design Strategies with essays and paper selected from the homonym symposium.
Resilient E. D. Strategies / Favargiotti, Sara. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 12-14.
Resilient E. D. Strategies
Favargiotti, Sara
2015-01-01
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A new urbanity has been gradually defined by new environmental and landscape qualities with a higher respect and consideration of local territories and identities. New temporal regimes have been identified by new work life and social attitudes. The scarcity of non-renewable energy, economic change and new lifestyles enhanced a more conscientious ecological awareness. This generated a complex change in the way of thinking and living the territory, the landscape and the city. Contemporary cities – facing difficult decisions about scarce resources and investments – strive for urban and ecological efficiency. In recent years, it is increasingly evident how the ecosystems function, “ecological thinking across the scales of inquiry and application has moved toward a more organic model of open-endedness, flexibility, resilience and adaptation, and away from a mechanistic model of stability and control.” (Reed, Lister 2014). The essay aims to offer the documented registration of this phenomenon in progress, in order to redefine urban elements imagining them as latent public spaces, relational engines and ecological devices and outlining specific resilient strategies for a development integrating new urban models, social needs and risk prevention strategies. It also introduces the monograph volume of REDS. Resilient Ecological design Strategies with essays and paper selected from the homonym symposium.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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