Agriculture &
Architecture:
Taking the
Country’s Side
Prologue
Introduction
Timeline
A. Agriculture & Architecture
B. Agriculture & Urbanism
C. From Agronomy to Agroecology
- A Hobby for Urban Elites
- Plantations and Enclosures
- From alchemy to Chemistry
- From War to Field Operations
- “Get Big or Get Out”
- Permanent and Organic Agriculture
- Beyond Industrial Agriculture
D. Exit Urbs
- Zomia
- Monasteries
- Anarchy and Localism
- Ruralism
- “Think Little”
- “Workers of the World, Disperse”
- Becoming Native
E. Facing the Present Environmental Predicament
- “A Blueprint for Survival”
- Energy Descent
- 1972: “The Limits to Growth”
- “Beyond Industrial Technology”
- “Small is Beautiful”
- 1978: “Permaculture One”
- 2008: “Future Scenarios”
F. Reframing the Practice & Theory of Design
- Major Precedents
- Ethic and Design Principles
- A Radical Site-Specificity
- A Reformulation of Site Planning
- Deepening Territories
- Reconsidering Urbanism
- Sub-Urbanism?