While inter-relation between the resources sector, urban planning and architecture goes back to antiquity, today those areas of knowledge seldom interact with each other.
- Resource extraction urbanism relates to the territorial deployment of infrastructures related to industrial processes. These set up a territorial frame for urbanization.
- Such concepts are seldom contemplated by those that plan and build mining projects.
- Architects and urban planners may not fully appreciate the technical and regulatory issues that are important to resource developers.
- As we seek to pursue a circular economy, how could architectural and urban planning perspectives help enhance the sustainability of resource projects?