Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living With Less Traffic

By David Engwicht

Book Overview

Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns provides groundbreaking answers to the problems that cars and traffic inflict upon neighborhoods, streets, and pedestrian rights. It points the way toward eco-cities... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865712832
• ISBN13: 9780865712836
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction The Nature of the Eco-City - Events Not Matter - Pro-City Not Anti-City - Chaotic Not Mono-Cultural - Spontaneous not Planned - Places not Destinations How Traffic Destroys the Eco-City - The Growing Zone of Influence - Burning the House to Stay Warm - A Nudge is as Good as a Wink Eco-Relational Thinking - More Power to the Generalist - Learning the Gentle Art - Getting Inside the Skin - Learning to Yarn With Rubbish Bins Eco-Rights - Human Rights in the Mechanical City - Cars on Streets Right or Privilege - Raw End of the Deal - A Draft Charter of Access to Exchange Rights Rebuilding the Eco-City Tomorrow - Metamorphosis - Do Cites Make the People - Five Clues from Nature - Ten Guidelines - No Gain Without Pain? - Four Modest Proposals - Feeding the Revolution - Will it Be a Long Road Home? Appendices A and B Glossary Endnotes Bibliography (10 pp) Index