Richard Sennet: Urban age understanding cities series
Cities, design and climate change
I attended this lecture two weeks ago, it covered multiscalar ecologies of cities, their incessant demands for resources and how these factors modify and dictate a cities geography, whether through food, furniture or jewelry and the impact these systems also have on urban relations, it covered the following:
- The sociology of consumption
- Dematerialisation of consumption
- Conspicuous consumption
- Production and consumption
- Delegating back to society
- Citizens connecting with civil societies
"People have little idea of how most things are made, they are detached from material and production value alongside the many chain links that are part of the production system. Serious change needs to occur in terms of the things people within society want and how they behave. It is when consumers begin demand to know how things are made will change occur, consumers need to begin to think for themselves"
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