Land (ab)useManifestation of Someone Else’s Problem

Land ‘use’

1- Residential (Villas, Apartment Buildings, Palaces, Townhouses)

2- Commercial (Mall, Hypermarket)

3- Food and Beverage

4- Healthcare (New center, Extension to existing)

5- Entertainment (Cinema, Country Club)

6- Mixed Use (Hotel)

7- Facilities (School, Mosque, Police Station, Civil defence Station, Fire Station, Gas Stations, ..etc.)

1: Social Inequality

• Residential: Who is it for?

• Villas: Land ‘Owners’/Employers

• Apartments: Working Population

• Palaces: Tourist Attractions/Super Rich/Billionaire Playboys

• Townhouses: Working Population/Young Families

2: Buy More Stuff!

• Commercial/Spend more money!

• Hypermarket/Global Production/Local Consumption

• Mall/Stuff that we do not need

• Industrial Exploitation

• Energy Consumption

• Oceans of Waste

• Traffic Congestion

3: Consumption and Waste

• Food and Beverage

• Globalised food production

• Deforestation

• Poaching

• Fishing Wars

• Industrial Farming/Pollution/Greenhouse Gases

• Destruction of the Ecosystem

4: Dealing with the Consequencesof 2 & 3• Treating the Symptoms

• Obesity

• Addiction

• Disease

• Injuries

• Propping up the Pharmaceutical Industry

5: Escape from 1, 2 & 3

• Cinema• Escapism

• Propping up the film Industry

• Paying for celebrity lifestyles

• Country Club• Social Exclusion

• Exclusive Park that the public cannot enter

6: Curious???

• Mixed use is all of the above

• Hotel• Escape from reality of the system

• Tourist Destination

• Temporary Home

7: Everyday Stuff

• Stuff that nobody cares about until they need it

• School• Exploring our impact on the planet

• Religion• Exploring our place in the Universe

• Civil Defence/Police Station• Civil Disobedience

• Gas Station• Burn more oil!

Someone Else’s Problem?

• Providing what property developers expect

• Not living but existing in Someone Else’s System

• Limited employment

• Business as usual

• Feeding society’s addiction to consumption

• Fragmentation of communities

• Heavy reliance on car ownership

• Social exclusion and inequality