SCARCITY IN EXCESS

After a period of extraordinary economic growth at the turn of the twenty-first century, the economy of Iceland collapsed into the d eepest and most rapid peacetime fiscal crisis ever recorded. Seeing the development of the capital area through the lens of scarcity , triggered new urban and regional questions and ecological approaches to design. This book considers both the crash and its afterma th as an opportunity to distil an intense snapshot of how ecological and human systems are interrelated, and how different ways of w iring th...[Read more]