Editorial view

摘要

This issue sees the conclusion of The Big Rethink, the AE's campaign to articulate a new vision of the potential of architecture and how it can re-engage more resonantly with wider social and human concerns. Underscoring the series has been the question 'How do we want to live?', and in this final chapter Peter Buchanan addresses this more explicitly in his proposal for a prototypical neighbourhood that encompasses and elaborates on many of the ideas discussed in the series. 'Because', as he writes, 'progress towards a true sustainability and its concomitant way of life cannot be delivered only by buildings'.