Sustainable communities : the potential for eco-neighbourhoods / Hugh Barton ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barton, Hugh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

City planning--Environmental aspects--Case studies.

Physical Description:

xix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Earthscan, 2000.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-298) and index.

ISBN:

1853835129

1853835137

OCLC:

41581057