SUBTRACTION

Keller Easterling's volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series analyzes the urgency of building subtraction. Often treated as fa ilure or loss, subtraction when accepted as part of an exchange can be growth. All over the world, sprawl and overdevelopment have a ttracted distended or failed markets and exhausted special landscapes. However, in failure, buildings can create their own alternati ve markets of durable spatial variables that can be managed and traded by citizens and cities rather than the global financial indus try. The...[Read more]