Background: Sustainable building requires global cooperation
The more vaguely and broadly the term 'sustainability' is interpreted, the more popular it seems to become. Today, it is applied to anything that is vaguely environmentally conscious. In contrast, the actual core meaning of sustainability, namely the application of a global and cross-generational perspective to issues of justice, is threatening to be lost. In both architecture and urban planning, there is a lack of a well-founded rationale for sustainability concepts. The following article outlines what this could entail for the design and construction of buildings.
