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Revision as of 09:18, 19 April 2015
What communities can do
- develop community, town or city wide sustainability groups, which might develop an interest in any sustainable community action topic. Use the Sustainable Comunity Action wiki as a collaborative web page, or pages, for your group.
some more specific examples:
- community steet audits
- conservation
- develop cohousing schemes
- develop community land trusts
- encourage rainwater harvesting
- footpath conservation
- Guerilla Bench, intervention to intensify neighbourly relationships, see video below
- if there are tower blocks encourage them to become sustainable tower blocks
- promote Cittaslow, or slow cities
- promote Ecovillages or eco districts
- promote shared space projects
- restoration projects
- self-build
- support city farms
- Transforming derelict buildings
- windmill preservation
Campaigns
Earth Day Network's Green Cities campaign
Why it matters
Most humans now live in cities. The quality of urban life therefore considerably defines the quality of human life.
Resources
- Being Somewhere - Low Impact Living
- City2.0 Resources
- Los Angeles: A History of the Future is the first attempt to systematically describe how a metropolitan area could be rebuilt, over decades, toward balance with nature.
- Future State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future, Worldwatch Institute, January 2007
- Tactical Urbanism, by the Street Plans Collaborative
- Walkable Communities
Citizens data initiative
According to UN statistics, about 50 per cent of the world’s population is living in cities today,(2007). By 2030 this percentage will be over 60 per cent. [1]
Of the 3 billion urban dwellers today, 1 billion live in "slums," defined as areas where people cannot secure key necessities such as clean water, a nearby toilet, or durable housing. [2]
Quotes
Jane Jacobs W, writer and activist
"We need places where we sit on the edges of the public realm and look in the mirror, to be reminded of who we really are." Chuck [3]
"A great high wall there, it tried to stop me
A great big sign there, said ‘private property’
But on the other side, it didn’t say nothing
That side was made for you and me."
Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land
"the habits of urban dwellers will largely determine the health of our ecosystems and the survival of biodiversity"
United Nations Environment Programe [4]Research
Eco-Cities, multi-national research network co-ordinated by scholars at the University of Westminster (London), the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC).
Video
more video: Guerilla Bench: "Beziehungskiste" - Los Angeles: A History of the Future - Transform Space into Place
See also
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
- Arts and culture
- Food, sustainable community action
- Localism
- Road safety
- Sharing, for example Sharing#Sharing cities
- Sustainable transport activism
- Sustainable transport
- Sustainable cities
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Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Built environment, Cittaslow, City region, Community land trust, Green belt, Green roof, Green urbanism, New Urbanism, Passive solar building design, Sustainable urbanism (includes criticism section), Theories and process of urban planning, Urban acupuncture, Urbanism
External links
References
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- ↑ UN news centre, 23 April 2007
- ↑ Worldwatch Institute, 2007
- ↑ confronting the urban mirror, August 27, 2011
- ↑ unep.org, October 2013