Aspects of thinking around scarcity and the built environment necessarily demand a consideration of building materials. But thinking about building materials and scarcity is much more than a consideration of the availability or affordability of commodities. Rather, it demands an engagement with extended processes in space and time: from mines, quarries, oil wells, forests and plantations, via refineries, factories and technologies of inconceivable variety, to assemblages on building sites and, following periods of use and ongoing change through occupation, on to abandonment, demolition and/or recycling.
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