Keyword: urban planning

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents
Dissimulating the Sustainable City
by Andrés Duany & Emily Talen

In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite. This apparent dichotomy ignores the interdependence between human settlement and the natural world. In fact, …
related subjects: Conscious Community

Toward Sustainable Communities
Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition
by Mark Roseland

The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of …
related subjects: Social Responsibility

The Urban Food Revolution
Changing the Way We Feed Cities
by Peter Ladner

Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lionÂ’s share of the …
related subjects: Food & Gardening

Choosing a Sustainable Future
Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY
by Liz Walker

We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming - one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice andcreativity. Ithaca is …
related subjects: Conscious Community

Creating Cohousing
Building Sustainable Communities
by Charles Durrett & Kathryn McCamant

A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes haveturned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of …
related subjects: Conscious Community

Dry Run
Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis
by Jerry Yudelson

In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industrial, urban and environmental reasons stirring up …
related subjects: Energy

Better NOT Bigger
How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve your Community
by Eben Fodor

Contrary to accepted wisdom, rapid urban growth can leave communities permanently scarred, deeply in debt, with unaffordable housing, a lost sense of community, and sacrificed environmental quality.
In Better NOT Bigger, Fodor explodes the …
related subjects: Cultural Critique

EcoCities
Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature (Revised Edition)
by Richard Register

Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention.
EcoCities is about re-building cities and towns based on …
related subjects: Conscious Community