Parallel Sprawl: Urban Sprawls and Suburban Landscapes

Audio&visual, Ibai Rigby, Low Density, Parallel Sprawl, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Audiovisual, Economics, Future cities, Gentrification, Global Awareness, Housing, Housing market, Kosovo, Mobility, Planetary urbanizations, Politics, Population, Suburban exodus, Suburbs, Switzerland, Territory, Tourism, Urban Paradigms, Urban planning, Urban sprawl

With city centres all over the world succumbing to land grabbing through tourism and global capital, more and more pressure will be exerted on their surrounding territories in the form of urban sprawl. While too often neglected, when not derided by the architecture discipline, this middle landscape is the arena where the struggle for the future of human habitation will be fought.