How can I support the application of Indigenous laws?
Alejandro Frid, the author of Changing Tides: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene, was asked the …
Keyword: urban planning
Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents
Dissimulating the Sustainable City
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, …
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Toward Sustainable Communities
Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition
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
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
Creating Cohousing
Building Sustainable Communities
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 …
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Dry Run
Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis
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
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)
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 …
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