Q&A: Architect of a sustainable future

摘要

German architect Albert Speer Jr is a pioneer of sustainable building and city planning whose firm has designed ecological communities from Cologne in Germany to Shanghai in China. With the publication of a new book setting out his philosophy, he explains why we should take a more holistic approach to urban development. That we don't use more resources today than we can rebuild for the next generation. We still, everywhere, need too much energy and too much of everything else - mobility, land use and so on. Western society thinks in sectors, and not enough in circles. We must be holistic and interdisciplinary.