A TED talk by a somewhat pushy and dramatic journalist, but still a good overview of the future of cities and their slums.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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Artur Kalil Thesis | Preventing Rural Exodus through Development University of Maryland - College Park School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
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Artur Marques Kalil
Master of Architecture, May 2009
University of Maryland - College Park
School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
amkalil@umd.edu
Master of Architecture, May 2009
University of Maryland - College Park
School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
amkalil@umd.edu
Thesis Mates
Comittee Profiles
Reading List
- The Barefoot Architect - Johan Van Lengen
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander
- Grow Your Own House: Simon Velez and Bamboo Architecture
- New Bamboo: Architecture and Design - Villegas and Londoro
- Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods - Adams and Elizabeth
- The Mystery of Capital - Hernando de Soto
- Banker for the Poor - Muhammad Yunus
- The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs
- Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Gestão Ambiental nas Cidades - Rualdo Menegat, Gerson Almeida
- Habitar, Participar, Pertenecer - Victor Pelli
- Small Is Beautiful - E. F. Schumacher
- Architecture for the Poor - Hassan Fathy
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My question for you Artur, after watching this TED talk and reading schumacher/fathy/sri lanka housing project in regionalism, is whether you would encourage the idea of self-building communities to evolve into a search of self identity.
Looking at the example that Neuwirth showed in the talk, you have your very primitive "garbage heap" on one end of the spectrum, and a highly developed yet homogenized building (the examples from turkey) on the other. I think he showed some examples in between that have distinct identities.
So how can you come up with a design-plan to help flourish these communities without being too prescriptive about it (a la Fathy), yet allow self expression and thus instilling that feeling of freedom that Neuwirth talked about early in the talk.
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