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Austeria: City of Minimum Consumption
Author(s) -
Suryawinata Daliana,
Maas Winy
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.1440
Subject(s) - austerity , consumption (sociology) , factory (object oriented programming) , economics , political science , operations research , engineering , sociology , law , computer science , social science , politics , programming language
If a new stringency with economic and material resources is to become a new way of life, how should austerity be recast as a positive force rather than a negative imposition? Daliana Suryawinata and Winy Maas look at definitions of austerity and describes the Austeria project at The Why Factory at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) that looked at new models for combating excessive consumption, such as the ‘Zen road to affluence’.