Includes indexes.

Introduction: building from waste / Dirk E. Hebel, Marta H. Wisniewska, Felix Heisel -- City and refuse. Self-reliant systems and urban terrains / Mitchell Joachim -- Hands off: urban mining! A plea for the re-evaluation of substandard housing / Jörg Stollmann -- Densified. Densified waste materials -- Reconfigured. Reconfigured waste materials -- Transformed. Transformed waste materials -- Designed. Designed waste materials -- Organic waste design: a new culture of designed waste products / Sascha Peters -- Cultivated. Cultivated waste materials -- Product index -- Load-bearing products -- Self-supporting products -- Insulating products -- Waterproofing products -- Finishing products.