Statement
Location: Introduction – design principles for clients
Client: NA
Site: NA
Program: NA
Concept:
- Modest Urbanism: Common Sense, Durable Practice
- Traditional town making with local identity
Scope:
- Essay on design for scarcity and resilience
- Retrofit sprawl infrastructure to minimal living
- Necessary simplicity – husbandry of limited resource
Outline
- Greater stress: Austerity and new opportunity
- Minimal dwelling: Reduced home, expanded life
- Self sufficiency: Resists suburbanization of poverty
- Places to walk: Neighborhoods to meet, support
- Neighborliness: Less private, more communal
- Infill and repair: Obsolete, wasteful, dreary, alienating
- Family flexibility: Homes adjacent for extended support
- Workers crucible: New narrative for better future
- Models for contraction: Equity in food, health, resources
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