Design for Ecological Democracy : txt
Randolph T. Hester.
- x, 509 p. ill. (some col.) ; maps ; plans ; (some col.) 24 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-485) and index.
Departments: Acknowledgements xi -- Introduction 1 -- The State of American Habitation 1 -- Ecological Democracy 3 -- Life, Death, and Rebirth of Ecological Democracy 4 -- The Marriage of Necessity and Happiness 5 -- Design of City and Landscape Together 7 -- Enabling, Resilient, and Impelling Form 8 -- Enabling Form: “We Got to Know Our Neighbors” 8 -- Resilient Form: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness 9 -- Impelling Form: “Make a City to Touch the People’s Hearts” 9 -- The Glocal Design Process 10 -- The Focus Is Design 10 -- This Book Is for Students of Ecological Democracy 12 -- Enabling Form: “We Got To Know Our Neighbors” 15 -- Centeredness 21 -- Ten Rules for Good Centers 23 -- Sociopetal Places, Forming Open Circles 32 -- Places for Community Rituals 37 -- Nourishing Centeredness Every Day 40 -- Connectedness 49 -- Interdependent Adjacencies: What Goes Together and What Doesn’t 51 -- Transportation and Communication That Unify 52 -- Chains, Webs, Flows, Networks, Cycles, and Recycles 54 -- Resources Footprints 57 -- Wildlife Habitats 58 -- Ecological Thinking 59 -- Mutualism and Glocalization 60 -- Outside the Confines of the Box 62 -- Things That Don’t Go Together But Might 63 -- Finding Fish Heads and Tails 64 -- The Lost Mountain, the Power Map, and the Dirt Contractor 66 -- Fairness 77 -- Accessibility 78 -- Inclusion 80 -- Equal Distribution of Resources and Amenities 82 -- Paying Attention to Design 83 -- Mapping Injustices 85 -- Fair Landscapes Empower 87 -- Sensible Status Seeking 97 -- Forming Communities to Be What They Are 100 -- Lessons from Poverty 104 -- Taking Root 105 -- Small Is Often Beautiful 106 -- Rare and Commonplace Beauty 107 -- Conspicuous Nonconsumption 110 -- Inclusive Heterogeneity 111 -- Dirty Enough to Be Happy 112 -- Healthy Status Seeking 114 -- Sacredness 117 -- Sacredness Expresses Our Essential Nature 117 -- Uncovering Sacredness 118 -- Transformative Community Awareness 125 -- Preservation 126 -- Design Gestalt 127 -- Recurring Center 127 -- Natural Boundary 130 -- Connections to Community, Ancestors, and Spirits 130 -- Particularness 132 -- Design Inspieration 133 -- A Higher Purpose for Vexing Problems 135 -- Resilient Form: Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Sustainable Happiness 137 -- Particularness 145 -- Bioregional Distinction: Topographic Typologies and Willful Water 147 -- Peculiar Forms of Conserving, Recycling, and Repairing 152 -- Meditations, Imaginings, and Similar Someplace Else 160 -- Time Lapse and Previous Catastrophes 164 -- Particularness Provides Goodeness of Fit 169 -- Selective Diversity 171 -- Biological Diversity 172 -- Cultural Diversity 184 -- Global Heterogenization and Glocal Design 186 -- The Landscape Form of a Diversified Economy 187 -- Social Ecotones of Mixed-Use Neighborhoods 188 -- How Much Diversity Is Enough? 190 -- Intergenerational and Social-Class Diversity 196 -- Seeding Diversity 196 -- Density and Smallness 201 -- Concentrated Density Creates Resilience 201 -- The Conspiracy against Density 205 -- Net, Perceived, and Affective Density 207 -- Making Density Desirable 208 -- Provide for Privacy 218 -- Hide Density 219 -- Green the Neighborhood 220 -- Acquire Big Nature 221 -- Access Transit 221 -- Identify the Neighborhood and the Block 222 -- Create the Center 222 -- I Beg Your Pardon: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 223 -- Limited Extent 227 -- Two Excellencies Make a Singular Resilience From Settlement to Edge City and Fat Suburb 229 -- Three Questions of Size 230 -- Appropriate Size: The Outer Limits of Regional Carrying Capacity 230 -- Appropriate Size: Internal Limits on Optimal City Size 231 -- Reconfiguring Megacities 233 -- Inside and Outside 237 -- Cities Approaching 250,000 People 238 -- Appropriate Size: Small Towns in Regional Form 240 -- Creating a Big Wild Greenbelt for Los Angeles 244 -- The Essential Scales for Governing Ecological Democracy 251 -- A Mollusk, a Crustacean, a Flat Worm, and Tocqueville 253 -- Adaptability 255 -- Flexible City Form from Natural Process 256 -- Landscapes of Adaptability 256 -- Emptiness 259 -- Landscape and Building 260 -- Priority Framework and Piecemeal Intricacy 263 -- Continuous Experiment, Adaptive Management, and Windows of Opportunity 272 -- Choice 275 -- Impelling Form: “Make A City To Touch The People’s Hearts” 277 -- Everyday Future 281 -- Designing for What People Do All Day 283 -- Integrating Present Experience with Change 284 -- Marking Time 287 -- Inspiring Visionary Futures with the Everyday 289 -- Everyday Lessons for Designers 296 -- Naturalness 301 -- Naturopathy 302 -- Naturism 305 -- Naturalization 308 -- The Form to Arouse Naturalness 310 -- The Natural Park 315 -- Naturalness Impels 323 -- Inhabiting Science 325 -- Urban Ecological Illiteracy 327 -- Native Wisdom, Science, and the Language of Ecological Democracy 331 -- How Science is inhabited 332 -- What We Need To Know 334 -- Learning from the Urban Landscape 338 -- Discovery Landscapes 340 -- Cultivating Landscapes 344 -- Instructive Landscapes 345 -- Scientific Landscapes 348 -- Argumentative Landscapes 350 -- LA96C 353 -- Reciprocal Stewardship 363 -- Stewarding and Stewarded 364 -- Naïve Stewardship Meets Freedom to Withdraw from Civic Life 365 -- Ecological Necessity and Voluntary Stewardship 367 -- Many Places at the Table 369 -- Making Places for Effective Stewardship 371 -- The Garden Patch 375 -- Active Responsibility 383 -- Pacing 387 -- Light Speed and Snail’s Pace 387 -- Dwelling Pace 390 -- Learning to Walk 392 -- Slouching toward Obesity at Car Speed 393 -- Remedial and Preventive Prescriptions 396 -- Pathfinders Curb the Car 396 -- Living Symphonic Sequences 399 -- Metamorphic Walks 404 -- Grounded 408 -- Walk All Over 412 -- Epilogue 419 -- Notes 423 -- References and Suggested Reading 459 -- Image Credits 487 -- Index 491 --
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