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Sustainable Communities: The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods
Contributor(s): Barton, Hugh (Author)
ISBN: 1853835137     ISBN-13: 9781853835131
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $47.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1999
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Annotation: "Sustainable Communities" examines the practicality of re-inventing local neighbourhoods in an increasingly mobile, privatized and commodified society. It presents the findings of a worldwide review of eco-villages and sustainable neighbourhoods, demonstrating what is possible.The book focuses on the ordinary localities in which people live, looking at the changing nature and role of local place communities, at the technologies (of energy, food, water, movement) that help close local resource loops and the potential for subsidiarity in decision making down to the local level.Written by an expert interdisciplinary team of town planners, social scientists and urban designers, it includes case studies from the UK, Denmark, Germany and the US, plus a detailed appendix listing current eco-village and eco-neighbourhood schemes by country.
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
- Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General
Dewey: 307.336
LCCN: 2003279341
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6" W x 9.13" (1.19 lbs) 328 pages
 
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'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way. It will be of immense benefit, not only to town planners but also to al those professional and voluntary groups and politicians who seek to create the new communities of tomorrow'
From the Foreword by Jed Griffiths, Past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

There is widespread support for the principle of creating more sustainable communities, but much hazy, wishful-thinking about what this might mean in practice. In reality, we witness more the death of local neighbourhoods than their creation or rejuvenation, reflecting an increasingly mobile, privatized and commodified society.
Sustainable Communities examines the practicalities of re-inventing neighbourhoods. It is neither an idealistic, utopian tract nor a designer's manual, but is, rather, a serious attempt to address the real issues.
This collection of expert contributions:

* examines the nature of local community and methods of building social capital
* presents the findings of a world-wide survey of eco-neighbourhoods and eco-villages with case studies from the United Kingdom, Europe, America and Australia
* develops a fresh perspective on the planning and design of neighbourhoods in urban areas, based on the eco-system approach
* explores practical programmes for local resource management and the implications for community-based decision-making
* provides a detailed appendix listing current eco-village and eco-neighbourhood schemes by country

Written by an interdisciplinary team of social and environmental scientists, town planners and urban designers, this is a thought-provoking and important contribution to both the theory and practice of the development of sustainable communities.