Critical Indigenism as Approach for Sustainable Urbanization

Within the next 30 years, cities will grow dramatically. Rural areas will become new urban centers, and open spaces will transform into urban cityscapes. Population growth, demolition of natural landscapes, and urbanization are fuelling the already imminent threat of climate change. Indigenous struc...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2022-09, Vol.1078 (1), p.12085
Main Authors: Stürwald, S, Mohamed, F, Schmidt, W, Reitz, J, Maboea, D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Leadership
Open spaces
Population growth
Regionalism
Rural areas
Urban areas
Urban environments
Urban planning
Urbanization
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Summary:Within the next 30 years, cities will grow dramatically. Rural areas will become new urban centers, and open spaces will transform into urban cityscapes. Population growth, demolition of natural landscapes, and urbanization are fuelling the already imminent threat of climate change. Indigenous structures with their own “critical regionalism” touch on a wide range of cultural, economic, and societal aspects. The authors of this paper examine the possible influence of indigenous vernacular structures and the important regional dependencies in African communities. Paradigm would be the use of materials, typologies, building layouts, urban planning, and ecological concepts as well as the question of the importance of a defined urban image. The paper is based on results derived from interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration within the framework of the Female Academic Leadership Network for Conscious Engineering and Science towards Sustainable Urbanisation FALCONESS.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/1078/1/012085