0.1. ABSTRACT Changes in weather patterns, caused by solar radiations, movements in tectonic plates, volcanic activities, all the way to biotic processes and all that climate change entails. In this issue varsity of professionals have attempted to develop structural designs that they have been believed to be the solution, some have failed while others succeeded. However, is it enough to develop or simply redesign infrastructures in order to manage our involvement with climate change? Stewart Brand in his book “The Whole Earth Discipline” does argue that urbanization should be rethought by taking into account emerging forces of climate change and some of society’s general positions on environmental design should be modified. “Cities are green with a huge room for improvement.”1 Traditional indigenous environments are the ones with the most room for improvement with their structural vulnerability while facing climate change.
Reference 1
Brand, Stewart. 2010. Whole Earth Discipline. London: Atlantic Books.
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