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this approach is ‘not anti-car, it’s pro-community’.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Zoning. Zoning policy to protect small towns and the countryside around them. Greenbelt zoning was defined by Ebenezer Howard at the turn of the century and has yet to be taken seriously by American governments.
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
one of the millions of green shoots forcing their way through the cracks in the concrete, each defying the headline narrative of decline that dominates our time.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Two Paradises are in one, To live in Paradise alone. MARVELL, The Garden.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
I have spent most of my professional life working in the Fens, excavating sites in a landscape that has changed beyond recognition over the past four centuries, when wholesale drainage converted a complex network of shallow lakes, slow-flowing rivers, marshy meadows and lush willow and alder woodland into a series of huge rectangular arable fields
... See moreFrancis Pryor • Scenes From Prehistoric Life
heroes is with service to and stewardship of the land.