Resumen de Encountering Space

Dawn Parke, Eddy Fox, Sandeep Balagangadharan Menon

• The health of an ecosystem is measured by its diversity, connectedness and adaptability. If cities can be seen as complex ecosystems, in social and economic terms as well as in the ecological sense, then contemporary cities are profoundly unhealthy and dysfunctional. To this extent, the restoration and reinforcement of these measures must be the prerogative for anyone engaged in the design or planning of urban environments.