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Recognizing the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction,
the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists,
architects, spatial planners, and policymakers from around the world to
author a manifesto. Toward Re-Entanglement: A Charter for the City and the Earth
is a call for radical transformation. It challenges all those with a
role in the conception, production, operation, and governance of the
building sector to address the systemic ecological, climatic, and social
impacts incurred by its activities.
Twelve principles of
"re-entanglement" guide the redesign of the entire life cycle of the
urban realm: the reforming and rematerializing of the physical artifacts
that comprise it, the reconfiguring of the socioeconomic structures
that underpin it, and the reengaging of the bioregions that might
sustainably supply it. In this way, the unprecedented convergence of the
environmental and social crises we are causing offers powerful
opportunities for systemic change.