Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places Public & Commercial Buildings Material choices have a global

Material choices have a global impact

Publication Date: February 2012

as dazzling today as it was a century ago

ISBN: 9781915722607

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places Public & Commercial Buildings Material choices have a globalLeft behind places can be found in prosperous countriesfrom South Yorkshire, integral to the industrial revolution and now Englands poorest county, to Barranquilla, once Colombias portal to the Caribbean and now struggling. More alarmingly, the poorest countries in the world are diverging further from the rest of humanity than they were at the start of this century. Why have these places fallen behind? And what can we do about it? World renowned