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== Interwiki links ==
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Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Built environment|Built environment]], [[wikipedia:Cittaslow|Cittaslow]], [[wikipedia:City region|City region]], [[wikipedia:Community land trust|Community land trust]], [[wikipedia:Green belt|Green belt]], [[wikipedia:Green roof|Green roof]], [[wikipedia:Green urbanism|Green urbanism]], [[wikipedia:New Urbanism|New Urbanism]], [[wikipedia:Passive solar building design|Passive solar building design]], [[wikipedia:Sustainable urbanism|Sustainable urbanism]] (includes criticism section), [[wikipedia:Theories and process of urban planning|Theories and process of urban planning]], [[wikipedia:Urban acupuncture|Urban acupuncture]], [[wikipedia:Urbanism|Urbanism]]


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== External links ==

Revision as of 09:18, 19 April 2015

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What communities can do

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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

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

"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."

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

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more video: Guerilla Bench: "Beziehungskiste" - Los Angeles: A History of the Future - Transform Space into Place

See also

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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



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  1. UN news centre, 23 April 2007
  2. Worldwatch Institute, 2007
  3. confronting the urban mirror, August 27, 2011
  4. unep.org, October 2013
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