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ICELAND // REGIONS

POPULATION P/KM2

SCAR#1PEOPLE >> DENSITY

TOTAL POPULATION >> 319,000

VIEW FROM HALLGRIMSKIRKJA // REYKJAVIK VIEW FROM ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL // LONDON

DENSITY // REYKJAVIK

POPULATION P/KM2 2000

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TOTAL POPULATION >> 319,000

VIEW FROM ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL // LONDON

DROSSCAPE: WASTING LAND URBAN AMERICA // ALAN BERGER

“....THE FLATTENING OUT OF CULTURES AND PLACES CAUSED BY LOW DENSITY URBANISATION.”

SCARCITY // AD // ICELAND INITIATIVESTHE NUmBER OF HOUSING AREAS ACROSS THE RCA WITH BUILDINGS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION WAS AmPLIFIED BY THE competition BETWEEN mUNICIPALITIES WITH THEIR OWN LOCAL AGENDAS. THE BIGGER THE AREA THE mUNICIPALITIES PLANNED AND THE mORE AmENITIES THEY WERE ABLE TO OFFER, THE mORE TAx REvENUE THEY COULD HARvEST TO SERvICE THE COmmUNITY.

URBAN FLOTSAM // CHORASYSTEm BOUNDARIES SOmETImES COINCIDE WITH POLITICAL BOUNDARIES, mORE OFTEN THEY DO NOT. THE EDGE IS vAGUE, LACkS IDENTITY AND AS A LImINAL zONE IT SEPARATES qUITE DISTINCT GEOGRAPHICAL ENTITIES.

SCAR#2 INDUSTRY >> DIVERSITY

ALUMINIUM DEPENDENCY

MANUFACTURING DEPENDENCY

SCAR#3TRADE >> SELF-SUFFICIENCY

POPULATION DECLINE

ALUMINIUM COLLAPSE

LIVING COSTS ESCALATE

POPULATION INCREASE

INDUSTRIAL DIVERSITY INCREASES[ LESS DEPENDENCE ON ALUMINIUM ]

LIVING COSTS STABILISE