Cities evolve in a rhizome-like fashion interconnected nodes accelerating the flow of information, rate of innovation, and the accumulation of wealth, but also making apparent new inequalities and informal economies. Since the '70s, the green and feminist movements, and self-help housing, are challenging the duality of Western discourse, scientific methods, and the separation between working and living. The creation of productive livelihoods and self-sufficient households---including local food production---can help restore local cultural and ecological habitats in the urban milieu. Sustainability is redefined as maintaining, improving and restoring local household productivity levels. This multi-disciplinary study considers the evolution of technological, social and artistic innovation; it considers housing as a fluid interface between human and biological systems, thus a social organization defined by its human ecology. Overall productivity performance is measured in terms of cultural and biological diversity, and leisure time produced.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.100750 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Kongshaug, Rune. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Architecture (School of Architecture.) |
| Rights | © Rune Kongshaug, 2006 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002593371, proquestno: AAIMR32646, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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