385
so-called.
19
In Japan since 2017, average new apartment sizes are “under 100 sqm.”
20
In stark contrast, Paris, the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore
in terms of housing prices, by law provides 16.2 square meters (174.3 square feet)
per living space, which could include an entire family. A French chamber de bonne
(maid’s attic room) is often no more than 2.43 square meters, or 26.1 square feet,
smaller than most jail cells, and at the extreme of a spectrum that includes the largest private home in the world, there is the 27-story building, a family home, in
Mumbai comprising 400,000 square feet.
21
Construction of human settlements, with their twenty-first-century ecological
footprints, has mired most utopian visions, as well as any conceivable comparisons
with a Shanidar. Painting over the green with the charcoal, crowding out that which
was, chemically altering everything in a mad dash for highly prized and hugely
impactful comforts that were never known to our species, before. This is not to
negate some highly refined architectural plans for revisioning a sustainable integrative set of factors, which for several centuries has been largely renounced. Take the
“Soprema” vision for corporate headquarters in Strasbourg, France, an “8,225
square-meter ecological utopia,” a “poetic landmark” poised to be “the green city of
the future” that can “achieve a symbiosis between humans and nature” with a “green
flex office for nomad co-workers.”
22
19 See “Our World In Data” – “Urbanization,” https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization, Accessed
April 18, 2020. See also, “Average apartment sizes in top seven Indian cities decline 17% in five
dential/average-apartment-sizes-in-top-seven-indian-cities-decline-17-in-five-yearsreport/68374229, Accessed April 18, 2020.
20 See “99% of new apartment supply in Tokyo in 2017 was under 100sqm,” by Zoe Ward, Re-Think
Tokyo, March 14, 2018, https://www.rethinktokyo.com/blog/zoe-ward-japan-property-central/99new-apartment-supply-tokyo-2017-was-under-100sqm/tokyo, Accessed April 18, 2020.
21 See, “Paris: life in a storage cupboard has never been so expensive,” by Rooksana Hosssenally,
March 7, 2014, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/07/paris-storagecupboard-illegal-renting-expensive, Accessed April 18, 2020. See “A Look at the Absurd Size of
the Largest House in the World,” by Trevor English, February 2, 2020, Interesting Engineering,
https://interestingengineering.com/a-look-at-the-absurd-size-of-the-largest-house-in-the-world,
Accessed April 18, 2020.
22 See “Semaphore: an Ecological Utopia Proposed by Vincent Callebaut,” archdaily, https://www.
archdaily.com/tag/utopia, Accessed April 18, 2020. See also, “How Utopian Living Looked to
Modernist Architects,” by Anika Burgess, Atlas Obscura, September 14, 2016, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-utopian-living-looked-to-modernist-architects, Accessed April 18,
2020. See also, “Journey Back to the Dreamy, Gorgeous Architecture of Utopia,” by Margaret
Rhodes, March 31, 2018, Wired Magazine, https://www.wired.com/2016/03/journey-backdreamy-gorgeous-architecture-utopia/. Accessed April 18, 2020. See also, The Green Braid:
Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity, by Kim Tanzer and Rafael Longoria,
Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK, 2007; Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State, by
Gareth Doherty, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2017; Tent Life: Haiti, Photographs
by Wyatt Gallery, Essay by Edwidge Danticat, Umbrage Editions, Brooklyn, NY, 2010; Robert
Adam – Country House Design, Decoration & the Art of Elegance, By Jeremy Musson, Photography
by Paul Barker, Foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins, Rizzoli International Publications, Random
House, New York, 2017; Ian McHarg’s Design With Nature, 25
th edition, John Wiley & Sons,
New York, 1995; Sense Of Place -European Landscape Photography, Foreword by Herman van
Rompuy, Bo Zar Books, Prestel, Munich, 2012; The Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and
42.4 Natural and Unnatural Occupancies
so-called.
19
In Japan since 2017, average new apartment sizes are “under 100 sqm.”
20
In stark contrast, Paris, the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore
in terms of housing prices, by law provides 16.2 square meters (174.3 square feet)
per living space, which could include an entire family. A French chamber de bonne
(maid’s attic room) is often no more than 2.43 square meters, or 26.1 square feet,
smaller than most jail cells, and at the extreme of a spectrum that includes the largest private home in the world, there is the 27-story building, a family home, in
Mumbai comprising 400,000 square feet.
21
Construction of human settlements, with their twenty-first-century ecological
footprints, has mired most utopian visions, as well as any conceivable comparisons
with a Shanidar. Painting over the green with the charcoal, crowding out that which
was, chemically altering everything in a mad dash for highly prized and hugely
impactful comforts that were never known to our species, before. This is not to
negate some highly refined architectural plans for revisioning a sustainable integrative set of factors, which for several centuries has been largely renounced. Take the
“Soprema” vision for corporate headquarters in Strasbourg, France, an “8,225
square-meter ecological utopia,” a “poetic landmark” poised to be “the green city of
the future” that can “achieve a symbiosis between humans and nature” with a “green
flex office for nomad co-workers.”
22
19 See “Our World In Data” – “Urbanization,” https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization, Accessed
April 18, 2020. See also, “Average apartment sizes in top seven Indian cities decline 17% in five
dential/average-apartment-sizes-in-top-seven-indian-cities-decline-17-in-five-yearsreport/68374229, Accessed April 18, 2020.
20 See “99% of new apartment supply in Tokyo in 2017 was under 100sqm,” by Zoe Ward, Re-Think
Tokyo, March 14, 2018, https://www.rethinktokyo.com/blog/zoe-ward-japan-property-central/99new-apartment-supply-tokyo-2017-was-under-100sqm/tokyo, Accessed April 18, 2020.
21 See, “Paris: life in a storage cupboard has never been so expensive,” by Rooksana Hosssenally,
March 7, 2014, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/07/paris-storagecupboard-illegal-renting-expensive, Accessed April 18, 2020. See “A Look at the Absurd Size of
the Largest House in the World,” by Trevor English, February 2, 2020, Interesting Engineering,
https://interestingengineering.com/a-look-at-the-absurd-size-of-the-largest-house-in-the-world,
Accessed April 18, 2020.
22 See “Semaphore: an Ecological Utopia Proposed by Vincent Callebaut,” archdaily, https://www.
archdaily.com/tag/utopia, Accessed April 18, 2020. See also, “How Utopian Living Looked to
Modernist Architects,” by Anika Burgess, Atlas Obscura, September 14, 2016, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-utopian-living-looked-to-modernist-architects, Accessed April 18,
2020. See also, “Journey Back to the Dreamy, Gorgeous Architecture of Utopia,” by Margaret
Rhodes, March 31, 2018, Wired Magazine, https://www.wired.com/2016/03/journey-backdreamy-gorgeous-architecture-utopia/. Accessed April 18, 2020. See also, The Green Braid:
Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity, by Kim Tanzer and Rafael Longoria,
Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK, 2007; Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State, by
Gareth Doherty, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2017; Tent Life: Haiti, Photographs
by Wyatt Gallery, Essay by Edwidge Danticat, Umbrage Editions, Brooklyn, NY, 2010; Robert
Adam – Country House Design, Decoration & the Art of Elegance, By Jeremy Musson, Photography
by Paul Barker, Foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins, Rizzoli International Publications, Random
House, New York, 2017; Ian McHarg’s Design With Nature, 25
th edition, John Wiley & Sons,
New York, 1995; Sense Of Place -European Landscape Photography, Foreword by Herman van
Rompuy, Bo Zar Books, Prestel, Munich, 2012; The Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and
42.4 Natural and Unnatural Occupancies