From Obsolescence to Sustainability, Back Again, and Beyond
@article{Abramson2012FromOT, title={From Obsolescence to Sustainability, Back Again, and Beyond}, author={Daniel M. Abramson}, journal={Design and Culture}, year={2012}, volume={4}, pages={279 - 298} }
ABSTRACT This article traces the idea of architectural obsolescence in twentieth-century architecture and urbanism: where the idea comes from that buildings and cities can suddenly lose their value and utility, and how architects and others around the world responded to the perception that obsolescence characterized modernity. Evolving out of early twentieth-century US income tax policy and capitalist real estate development, the paradigm of obsolescence spread globally in the mid-century urban… CONTINUE READING
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