On Architecture and the Greenfield (The Political Economy of Space Vol. 02, ed. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes; Hatje Cantz 2024) questions the relationship between land use for housing, urbanization and food production. The book is a follow-up to the best-selling On Architecture and Greenwashing (Hatje Cantz 2024).
In the face of the ongoing climate emergency, can humanity keep chipping at its food sheds via urbanization? This is the paradoxical question raised by residential forms of urbanization: On the one hand, housing settlements across the world devour thousands of hectares of arable fields at the periphery of growing cities. On the other hand, housing is a human right. This publication investigates these complexities. After On Architecture and Greenwashing (2024), it is the second volume in the series The Political Economy of Space and presents a cross-section of positions on architecture and its political economies from different perspectives.
– Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (ed.) On Architecture and the Greenfield (Hatje Cantz, 2024), book description from the publisher’s website
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with some black-and-white photographs and drawings.
