02473nam a22003137a 4500 pucpr 20250723141359.0 081126s2008 ncua b 000 0 eng d 9780557019403 0557019400 pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr CARIBET HT166 C634 2008 Correa, Jaime. 213593 Self-Sufficient Urbanism : a vision of contraction for the non-distant future. / Jaime Correa. txt First paperback edition Morrisville, North Carolina : Lulu Enterprise , 2008. 100 p. col. ill. ; 19 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Includes references (p. 87-91) 13 Introduction: The Future Is Now -- 17 Current Predicament -- 27 Peak Oil and Self Sufficiency -- 33 The Nature of Self Sufficient Urbanism -- 39 Territorial Scale and Population -- 43 Land Uses -- 45 Civic Spaces and Market Nodes -- 49 Urban Fabric and Road Network -- 51 Transportation -- 53 Buildings -- 57 Support Facilities -- 59 Urban Landscape and Food Production -- 67 Water and Irrigation Management -- 73 Passive Energy Generation -- 77 Waste Management -- 79 Conclusion: Moral Choice or Cruel Fate -- 83 Appendix : Self Sufficient Communities -- 87 List of Refences -- 93 Acknowledgements -- 97 About The Author -- Self Sufficient Urbanism is the most comprehensive town design mitigation plan available in today's transitional market. It encourages the creation of sustainable urban villages and rural settlements where almost everything needed for our daily living is found, produced, created, used, re used and recycled at walking distance from an identifiable center and in closed economic loops. Self sufficient Urbanism focuses on the ''re localization'' of resources, and on the advocacy and development of technologies attempting to eliminate our existence fossil fuel dependency and reduce our current rate of carbon emissions. This introductory pamphet reviews the existing universal predicament and offers a positive solution of contraction, simplicity and human dignity -- City planning 73701 Local Sustainable urban development 281797 Land use 122763 Local lcc 6 First paperback edition HT166 General C634 2008 217550 217550 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2009-09-08 amazon 29.86 451955 0 General HT166 C634 2008 91000000005652 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 39.86 6