Iceland, IS
- UrbanNext, March 20, 2019.
- 10 slides.
Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Low Density, Middle Density, Nuria Moliner, Núria Moliner, Politics and economics, Survey, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms
Active Public Spaces, Advantages & disadvantages, Architect’s role, Architecture&environment, Architecture&nature, Built environment, Built Environment & Low Density, Built landscape, Business, City challenge, Density, Discipline, Earth, Ecology, Economic crisis, Effects of tourism, Environment, Environmental protection, Extreme environments, Geothermal system, Global Awareness, Global warming, Iceland, Icelandic crash, Icelandic Housing Financing Fund, Infrastructure, Natural ecology, Nature, Nature vs. Artificial, New perspectives, Photographic Atlas of the Cities, Photography, Political ecology, Population, Population ecology, Return to nature, Reykjavík, Rural environment, Rural Proletariat, Speculation, Survey, Sustainable tourism, Tourism, Urban environment, Urban Form Repertoire, Urban infrastructure, Urban Paradigms, Useful after crisis, Volcano, Water, Water infrastructure
celand is not Reykjavík. Iceland is still dominated by nature, for now. With an estimated population of 330,000 inhabitants on the island as a whole, almost half reside in the capital. The remaining small cities and towns are mainly reduced to small gatherings of self-built traditional and humble houses, with basic facilities and the ever-present local geothermal swimming pool.