Architecture & Human Rights: A Book on Urban Thinking (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Niggli Verlag, Sulgen, 2018
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Paperback. Every week for the forseeable future until 2050, our cities grow by more than one million people. Contempt for human rights and freedoms, coupled with striking inequalities in living conditions reveal one of the greatest architecture challenges of our time. This book is a collage of narratives, photos, and critical conversations addressing the link between architecture and human rights. It reveals how architects can use human rights as powerful tools for better, fairer urban planning - to create liveable, sustainable cities of the future. Revealing how architects can use human rights as powerful tools for better, fairer urban planning - to create livable, sustainable cities of the future. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Architecture & Human Rights: A Book on Urban Thinking (Paperback)
- Author
- Tiziana Panizza Kassahun
- Publisher
- Niggli Verlag, Sulgen
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 372120980X
- ISBN 13
- 9783721209808
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In an ideal world this book would not need to be written...
The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility - not only - in the city-making process. Their work should therefore not be limited to creating living space as questions of the distribution of resources, so closely interwoven with architectural design, must also play a role.
This book is conceived as a collage of narratives, photos and critical conversations on the link between human rights and architecture. In its hybrid form, all of the people involved at every level are given a voice and encouraged to question whether the architecture of the towns, streets and buildings for which they are responsible contributes to the protection and advancement of human rights. The ultimate goal is that the consideration of human rights become an architect's powerful tool for better and fairer urban planning.
- With a contribution by Saskia Sassen
- Based on the inhabitants of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
- Thematizing different aspects of architecture in the context of human rights
- Important focus on architect's responsibility
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