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ON ARCHITECTURE AND THE GREENFIELD

Affordable forms of residential urbanization raise a paradoxical question: On the one hand 
cheap housing settlements worldwide devour thousands of hectares of arable fields at the
periphery of growing cities. On the other hand  housing is a human right. This publication
investigates complexities around the urbanization of agricultural land. For instance  while
agrarian practices may be understood as a necessary yet endangered human activity  they also
contain an imposing project aiming to subdue and control space  capital  resources  humans and
non-humans through ideologies of 'civilizing' and productivity. "On Architecture and the
Greenfield" is the second volume after "On Architecture and Greenwashing" (2023) in the series
"The Political Economy of Space" edited by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology-EPFL. The collection of essays presents a cross-section of positions on
architecture and its political economies from different perspectives. In this volume  Swarnabh
Ghosh  Paulo Tavares  and others articulate stances forming broad theoretical frameworks around
urbanization and agriculture-the so-called 'Greenfield.'

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