The permaculture city : regenerative design for urban, suburban, and town resilience /
Regenerative design for urban, suburban, and town resilience
Toby Hemenway.
- xvi, 269 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Looking at cities through a permaculture lens -- The surprisingly green city -- Permaculture design with an urban twist -- Designing the urban home garden -- Techniques for the urban home garden -- Strategies for gardening in community -- Water wisdom, metropolitan style -- Energy solutions for homes and communities -- Livelihood, real wealth, and becoming valuable -- Placemaking and the empowered community -- Tools for designing resilient cities -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we’re not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Readers will find new information on designing the urban home garden and strategies for gardening in community, rethinking our water and energy systems, learning the difference between a “job” and a “livelihood,” and the importance of placemaking and an empowered community." --Publisher's website.