Resisting the Architecture of Apathy

The way societies driven by profit and production design and build lived environments breeds an apathy that, unchecked, can only lead to the dissolution of human communities as we’ve known them.

“We may discover streets that retain a few small shops and businesses; houses with beautiful but modest gardens and neat facades that working-class families still own and reside in; community parks and libraries that are not left to decay by municipal authorities; a small but beautiful mosque or church that occupies space without dominating or otherwise displaying ostentatiousness; a farm dependently run with love for nature and craft.” —Marwa Al-Sabouni

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