how to diversify your gdp: an icelandic handbook
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Birmingham City Universtiy, FInal year Masters Degree Architecture students group review of the social and urban condition of Reykjavik, Iceland.TRANSCRIPT
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
0.1
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