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