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'In this book, Garcia and Vale question conventional wisdom about the rhetorical shibboleths that clutter around discussions of 'sustainable' and 'resilient' built environments like redundant scaffolding. They're right to do it, and they do it well as they abandon designer hubris in favour of factual analysis and rational argument as the basis for understanding and reshaping the 'manageable complexity' of our cities so they can work for everyone.' - Paul Downton, Ecocity Design Institute, Australia

'In this book, Garcia and Vale question conventional wisdom about the rhetorical shibboleths that clutter discussions of 'sustainable' and 'resilient' built environments like redundant scaffolding. They're right to do it, and they do it well as they abandon designer hubris in favour of factual analysis and rational argument as the basis for understanding and reshaping the 'manageable complexity' of our cities so they can work for everyone.' - Paul Downton, Ecocity Design Institute, Australia

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Emilio Jose Garcia, originally from Argentina, is a Lecturer in Sustainability at the School of Architecture and Planning in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His current research is about the application of ecological resilience to the analysis of the morphology and context of urban landscapes. He is interested in the research of resilience in relationship with compactness, adaptability, and inequality in the built environment. Brenda Vale is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Wellington in Victoria, New Zealand. Since her first publication (with Robert Vale) in 1975, The Autonomous House, she has been an influential figure in the area of sustainability as it relates to the built environment.

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