land (ab)use v1
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Land (ab)useManifestation of Someone Else’s Problem
Land ‘use’
1- Residential (Villas, Apartment Buildings, Palaces, Townhouses)
2- Commercial (Mall, Hypermarket)
3- Food and Beverage
4- Healthcare (New center, Extension to existing)
5- Entertainment (Cinema, Country Club)
6- Mixed Use (Hotel)
7- Facilities (School, Mosque, Police Station, Civil defence Station, Fire Station, Gas Stations, ..etc.)
1: Social Inequality
• Residential: Who is it for?
• Villas: Land ‘Owners’/Employers
• Apartments: Working Population
• Palaces: Tourist Attractions/Super Rich/Billionaire Playboys
• Townhouses: Working Population/Young Families
2: Buy More Stuff!
• Commercial/Spend more money!
• Hypermarket/Global Production/Local Consumption
• Mall/Stuff that we do not need
• Industrial Exploitation
• Energy Consumption
• Oceans of Waste
• Traffic Congestion
3: Consumption and Waste
• Food and Beverage
• Globalised food production
• Deforestation
• Poaching
• Fishing Wars
• Industrial Farming/Pollution/Greenhouse Gases
• Destruction of the Ecosystem
4: Dealing with the Consequencesof 2 & 3• Treating the Symptoms
• Obesity
• Addiction
• Disease
• Injuries
• Propping up the Pharmaceutical Industry
5: Escape from 1, 2 & 3
• Cinema• Escapism
• Propping up the film Industry
• Paying for celebrity lifestyles
• Country Club• Social Exclusion
• Exclusive Park that the public cannot enter
6: Curious???
• Mixed use is all of the above
• Hotel• Escape from reality of the system
• Tourist Destination
• Temporary Home
7: Everyday Stuff
• Stuff that nobody cares about until they need it
• School• Exploring our impact on the planet
• Religion• Exploring our place in the Universe
• Civil Defence/Police Station• Civil Disobedience
• Gas Station• Burn more oil!
Someone Else’s Problem?
• Providing what property developers expect
• Not living but existing in Someone Else’s System
• Limited employment
• Business as usual
• Feeding society’s addiction to consumption
• Fragmentation of communities
• Heavy reliance on car ownership
• Social exclusion and inequality