Investing in the Ground: Reflections on Scarcity,Remediation and Obdurate Form |
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Authors: | Douglas Spencer |
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Abstract: | Douglas Spencer develops David Harvey's notion of the ‘spatial fix’ in which material processes in the built environment and the ground itself are repeatedly used up for the purposes of capital investment. This can be to the detriment of the quality of the land itself, which is often abandoned after a period of time as polluted and unusable brownfield sites; while available resources are bled dry. It is a situation that has been worsened over the last few decades with the emphasis on entrepreneurial and intensive modes of urbanisation. Spencer indicates how this situation can be negated by landscape urbanism through critical interventions, such as those represented here in the work of the Architectural Association Landscape Urbanism (AALU) Masters programme in London and Groundlab, the practice associated with it. |
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Keywords: | Groundlab, Longgang City Masterplan/Deep Ground, Shenzhen, China, 2009 David Harvey ‘spatial fix’ Marx Capital The Poverty of Philosophy Keynesian economic model ‘flexible accumulation’ of neo-liberal economics Carlos Umaña Gambassi (AALU), Tactical Morphologies, Rugoa, Peal River Delta, China, 2010 Architectural Association Landscape Urbanism (AALU) post-Fordist conditions Charles Waldheim Alex Wall Programming the Urban Surface Stan Allen ‘urban entrepreneurialism’ Eva Castro Alfredo Ramirez ‘Thickening the Ground’ form highly articulated environments transdisciplinary approaches Nicola Saladino (AALU), Dredging Identities, Lingang. |
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