Abstract:
What will a post-suburban suburb look like aft er this current age of cheap fossil fuels is over and how can we re-arrange/ restructure/add-to it to maintain the suburb's relevance in a city network that will be much more localised and fragmented. What will be aspects of the suburb will be rendered obsolete, what will be used diff erently, and what types aspects of architecture will be added to sustain the efficiency need for the suburb to sti ll exist. How do you feed a city? Especially in Westernised cities we take it for granted that there will be food for us everyday wherever we are, whether it's at home or in a restaurant or the supermarket. Much of what we take for granted about the supermarket culture pre-supposes the presence of cheap fossil fuels. So we intend to re-expose the nature of food distribution and patterns of living. Every day for a city like Auckland enough food has to be produced, transported, bought and sold. A large amount of this food and energy comes from overseas and outside of the city. How can we use food and food production and clean energy as a catalyst to reshape our cities into more well organized places? How can we apply things we have learnt in the past and combine them with new technologies of the future to provide a more suburb that's more conducive to our needs as city dwellers.
