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Terms and conditions applyAD 179: Manmade Modular Megastructures
Ian Abley and Jonathan Schwinge
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Format: Book
Pages: 128
Publisher: John Wiley
Date Published: Feb 2006
Stock Code: 4975
Binding: Paperback
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There will be 8.3 billion human beings on Earth by 2030, and the more the better. We have the opportunity to create a world of expansive megacities - including one around old London. Doing so will advance the art, science and processes of manufacturing. But to deploy those abilities we must shrug off the dogma of sustainability that insists only small can be beautiful, arguesthe copywriterin an amusinglybarbed swipe at 'eco-zealots'- it's odd how somefolk seem to be personally insulted by the idea that we shouldn't consume everything on the planet like a horde of giant locusts.
Having said that, guest editors Jonathan Schwinge and Ian Abley (of the London based research organisation audacity) make an interesting case for development on a bold scale. They argue that by rapidly super-sizing the built environment society is not made vulnerable to natural or man-made hazards, and that design innovation surpasses bio-mimicry. Designers can learn from materials scientists working at the smallest of scales, and from systems manufacturers with ambitions at the largest. This issue calls for creative thinking about typologies and topologies, and considers what that also means for Africa, China, and Russia. Megacities everywhere demand integration of global systems of transport, utilities and IT in gigantic structures, constantly upgraded, scraping both the sky and the ground, outward into the sea - whether this is utopia or dystopia, you can decide. The essays range all over the world, taking in case studies, future projections and heartfelt polemics. Intriguing stuff for anyone interested in what our world may become.
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