AD Designing the rural: a global countryside in Flux Magazines Published in conjunction with the

Published in conjunction with the Architectural Association (AA)

which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of ‘social design’

Co-published in 1993 with the Vancouver Art Gallery

Bruxelles fait face à de grands défis urbains et sociaux : démographie et flux migratoires

AD Designing the rural: a global countryside in Flux Magazines Published in conjunction with theThe rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers no longer farm. In contrast, in