Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future

Emilio Garcia, Brenda Vale and Robert Vale

Springer, 2021

Collapse is a strong word. To me, it means an object, a building, say, toppling over and falling into pieces on the ground. It isn’t a pleasant image and it’s one that we would want to avoid. Emilio Garcia, Brenda Vale and Robert Vale’s book , therefore, seems like a contradiction – how can we make a built environment that