Book Reviews: The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl; EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture

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  • Akers, Trey
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
  • Brandes, Jess
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
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  • Book reviews of the following: THE REGIONAL CITY: PLANNING FOR THE END OF SPRAWL: With over 60 years combined planning experience in both the public and private sectors, urban designer Peter Calthorpe and researcher/author William Fulton bring together a stunning array of knowledge regarding urban planning and practice. At the heart of their argument lies the city, but their central focus pertains to the region as a whole—a complex but coherent economic system including labor pools, networks, transportation and land-use patterns that drive today’s global economy. The goal: connect these broad relationships with a regional vision undergirded by human-scaled design and policies. Only at this scale, the authors claim, will effective policies and planning produce the greatest change.; ECOVILLAGE AT ITHACA: PIONEERING A SUSTAINABLE CULTURE: This accessible book by Liz Walker tells the story of the decades-long journey to imagine, create, fund, sustain, and manage a low-impact, highly connected community. EVI, as it’s called, is one of the earliest and best known communities in the worldwide eco-village movement. Begun in the early 1990s by visionary Joan Bokaer and by Walker herself, the story of EVI is told by Walker with a mix of factual explanation, descriptive stories, and personal reflections.
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  • Carolina Planning Journal
Journal volume
  • 33
Journal issue
  • 1
Page start
  • 62
Page end
  • 63
Language
  • English
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  • Carolina Planning Journal

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