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The Weeping Landscape

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Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ((URBANLAND,volume 8))

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With this contribution, I would like to raise an urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

Whether you accept it or not, we have crafted a culture bubble, and built an environ bubble, within which the mindset of expansionistic thought represents the overculture. The challenge today is to deflate the bubble before it bursts. The most vulnerable sector may be the environ in the extended sense of the word (cf. Rees, 2003; Diamond, 2005). Whether you agree or disagree a bee without honey is a simple illustrative example of the very nature of today’s design culture.

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  1. SHAGAL | iodaa, Interdisciplinary Office for Design, Architecture & Arts, Zumikerstrasse 3, CH-8700, Küsnacht-Zurich, Switzerland

    Siamak G. Shahneshin

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  1. in Ústí nad Labem, Department of Geography, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Ceske Mladeze 8, Ústí nad Labem, 40096, Czech Republic

    Jiří Anděl

  2. Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and, Charles University, Albertov 6, Prague, 12843, Czech Republic

    Ivan Bičík

  3. Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and, Charles University, Albertov 6, Prague, 12843, Czech Republic

    Petr Dostál

  4. Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography and, Charles University, Albertov 6, Prague, 12843, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Lipský

  5. , Interdisciplinary Office for Design,, SHAGAL/iodaa, Zumikerstrasse 3201A, Kusnacht-Zurich, CH-8700, Switzerland

    Siamak G. Shahneshin

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Shahneshin, S.G. (2010). The Weeping Landscape. In: Anděl, J., Bičík, I., Dostál, P., Lipský, Z., Shahneshin, S. (eds) Landscape Modelling. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3052-8_1

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