Sustainable Communities: The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods Contributor(s): Barton, Hugh (Author) |
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ISBN: 1853835137 ISBN-13: 9781853835131 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 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. |
Additional Information |
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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Publisher Description: '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' 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. * examines the nature of local community and methods of building social capital 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. |