Approx. 36% of all emissions are from the use of buildings: particularly residential. Design rather than technological innovation is an important way of mitigating the causes of climate change and reducing CO2 emissions. The energy required over a buildings entire lifecycle adds a further 30% to its share of industrial emissions: to which we must add another 30% of transport-related emissions: one third of which is ascribable to the way cities are designed (not simply the fact that few of our cars are electric). Architectural design and urban planning may be the biggest causes of the environmental crisis by far: but they are also an area in which we can achieve meaningful mitigation.
THE PLAN magazine was founded in 2001 in Italy.
Since 2007, THE PLAN has become bimonthly and today, with 8 issues released every year is one of the most acclaimed architecture and design reviews on the market, with 3 monolingual editions ( English, Italian, Chinese).
Thanks to its strongly international approach, it is one of the most widely distributed and read magazines in Italy and worldwide, with an important readership of professionals from the sectors of architecture, design, building and real estate as well as universities faculties. With subscribers in 70 countries and distribution in newsstands, airports, railway stations, shopping malls, bookstores, in more than 60 countries.
