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Can an Urban Community Run Its own Waste Services Independently?
Author(s) -
Brass Clare,
Bowden Flora,
McGeevor Kate
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1430
Subject(s) - scarcity , sustainability , food waste , estate , foundation (evidence) , business , real estate , engineering , public administration , environmental planning , political science , finance , economics , waste management , law , geography , ecology , biology , microeconomics
Abstract In the imminent future, scarcity of resources will require architects to be as engaged with the redesign of services and infrastructure as they are now with the specifying of new materials. This is a situation that will be made all the more urgent by the increasing gap in public spending at a local and national level. Clare Brass, Flora Bowden and Kate McGeevor describe SEED Foundation, an enterprise that advocates new design approaches for sustainability, and explain how FoodLoop, a food waste and food growing project in London, is helping residents of the Maiden Lane Estate in King's Cross to take over the running of a food waste collection scheme without the aid of council funding.