Reconstructing the future cities as carbon sinks / Bauhaus Earth, Rocío Armillas Tiseyra, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Preface.-- 1 bioeconomy: toward sustainable living and biosensitive cities.-- 2 saving the world by construction.-- 3 the new european bauhaus vision.-- 4 critical appraisal of wood as a building material.--
5 rural is global.-- 6 indigenous planning in amazonia.-- 7 wetland: a future vernacular.-- 8 sustainable digitization and data democracy for urban transformation.-- 9 how to build equity.-- 10 life, growth, and death: from organisms and cities to societies.-- 11 regulations for the future 12 50 years since the limits to growth: learning to live within limits.-- 13 toward a circular bioeconomy.-- 14 paradise found: from mining to gardening.-- 15 sustainable forest management.-- 16 utopia or oblivion.-- 17 roof over our heads: examining adaptation for those living informally.-- 18 emergency architecture.-- 19 built-environment education in reconstructing Ukraine.-- acknowledgments.-- conference testimonials.-- index.

The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approximately 40 percent of global emissions derive from the construction, operation, and demolition of human settlements. The 21st century must be the century of re-entanglement, where quintessential functions (housing, work, culture, recreation, etc.) are reintegrated within urban spaces; where socioeconomic and ecological systems form a mutually supportive network of networks; and where past, present, and future are perceived as interwoven waves in the river of time. Fortunately, opportunities exist to transform the built environment from a carbon source to a carbon sink through, e.g. timber construction high-rise buildings, circular bioeconomy methods, AI-assisted design, smart recycling technology, multifunctional land use, integrated regional resource management, and community-based urban development, to name just a few.