Sustainability

‘Cities for small planet’ shows Richard Rogers’s Lu Zia Sui district proposal articulated as a sustainable compact city. Advantage of compact city is described as interventions triggering further opportunities for efficiency. Fewer roads but more landscape and reducing the heat bloom of cities so ultimately reducing the waste of energy is the theory of the Lu Zia Sui in Shanghai project. Process of planning is made possible by computer modeling that brings together the complex matrix of criteria that make up the modern city. (Page 2) This term can be compared to description about Houston-“Houston’s development is uncommonly exposed to economic buffeting and fluctuation at all level from local and national to global. A city model generated by complete simulation with a development strategy vs a sprawling city with totally unexpected factors.
Economical factors which can not be under control would be a key difference in this circumstance.

Article ‘Natural capitalism’ focuses on ‘The resource productivity as a societal strategy between business and government’. Throughout color-code which is mentioned as matrix of four worldviews, authors try to exam system of capitalism. It might be slightly biased and narrowed as a way of reflecting a perspective among business, environmentalist and synthesist. Anyway, from that approach, this article refers ‘Natural capitalism’as the alternative. Natural capital is an opposite notion against manufactured capital. For advanced resource productivity, business should play a role as link creating production and distribution in order to balance between two capital systems.

Article ‘A Question of Design' is a question on which side design purpose has put since Industrial Revolution- not planned, but has a definite motive. It would valuable in terms of those specific, limited to the practical, efficient and linear goals of early industrialists which mentioned (page 24) in the article, is still a shared general assumption about the world. McDonough points out design solutions for a worse-case scenario, cradle to grave design, hostile force about diversity, measuring of progress with only economic activities and high-tech products composed of low-quality materials.
There is no perfect solution with the passed footprint. Like he said, only strategy for change is on site.