How to reverse a tabula-rasa urbanism?

Excerpt from the Europan 17 catalogue of results, read the article from:

Aglaée Degros (BE) – architect in Artgineering office, teacher and director of the Institute of Urban Planning at Graz University of Technology, www.artgineering.eu

We have to apply a sort of urbanism in reverse, where priority is given to what has been neglected in Anthropocene ur-banism. Priority is given to sustainable systems: green and blue ecological continuities, land reclamation, active and collective mobility at an ecological level, etc. Previously housed in residual spaces, these systems are becoming structuring elements of the territory. As for the development of social aspects, the aim is to prioritise the community in order to transform the site into an inhabited and non-speculative project. Some winning projects of Europan 17 competition experiment this way to take care ofinhabited milieus…

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