Buchdetails
Format
Taschenbuch
Seiten
200
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Jan 1, 2010
Verlag
Loft Pubns
ISBN-10
8499361943
ISBN-13
9788499361949
Beschreibung
Each year, the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the CCNY travels to a city that is experiencing a revelatory
form of stress. In January of 2006 the destination
was Nueva Loja in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. At the
time, a population of around 100,000 was expanding
exponentially. Nueva Loja was the fastest growing municipality
in the country due to the oil boom. The city's projected rate of growth would pass 150,000 at just the moment the oil ran out. And so, they decided to investigate how Nueva Loja might move beyond oil to an economy and urban pattern embracing renewed harmony with the natural environment and dedicated to creating an intensely humane and supportive place for its inhabitants. Projects are utopian in looking to a time of harmony and prosperity but intensely practical in growing from the particulars of people and place, in utilizing simple, historic, and local technologies.
form of stress. In January of 2006 the destination
was Nueva Loja in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. At the
time, a population of around 100,000 was expanding
exponentially. Nueva Loja was the fastest growing municipality
in the country due to the oil boom. The city's projected rate of growth would pass 150,000 at just the moment the oil ran out. And so, they decided to investigate how Nueva Loja might move beyond oil to an economy and urban pattern embracing renewed harmony with the natural environment and dedicated to creating an intensely humane and supportive place for its inhabitants. Projects are utopian in looking to a time of harmony and prosperity but intensely practical in growing from the particulars of people and place, in utilizing simple, historic, and local technologies.