Today’s urban built environments fragment the components of personal life. Better architecture can rectify this vulnerability living in our society by implmenting efficient urban planning, sustainable architecture, and legislative control over real estate.
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- The death of cities are due to the fragmentation of living and working components of our life. People no longer live close to where they work, yet the need to earn an income is great, so most people choose to commute to work. This action created huge ineffciencies in a person's limited days of life, and the infrastructure built to support the commute and the energy exhausted in transportation emit large amount of CO2.
- Due to the progress of climate control system in buildings, a vital component of personal life - the access to nature is completely severed off. Side effects from sealing inside an enclosed space include sick building syndrome, energy waste due to inefficient thermal performance of buildings and lowered quality of life. Urban environments must have better access to nature.
- To rectify this vulnerability, first, I propose people to live where they work this will decrease the time and energy wasted in commute; second, improve the quality of urban environment, meaning living in a pollution free, crime free and inspiring city; third, create better envelope for buildings to lower energy consumption and decrease urban heat island effect; lastly, people must be able to afford the price to live close to where they work, this can be achieved by regulation on housing prices.
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