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Scenario

How to resist designing band-aid solutions to structural problems

I keep getting asked to design homeless shelters instead of affordable housing and I know shelters are easier politically but they do not solve anything.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional practice can become complicit in maintaining problems rather than solving them when addressing symptoms is more politically feasible.

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Aurelius
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Engineering — Architecture & Urban Planning?”

Peri

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