Community Design

Articles on this site:

EcoCities by Richard Register
Making cities sustainable is a crucial challenge.

Eco-Community Design by Guy Dauncey
Bamberton: a plan for an ecological, humane community.

Reclaiming Community by Matt Holland
Cohousing in inner-city Portland.

Village Homes by Bill Browning and Kim Hamilton
A pedestrian-oriented solar community comes of age.

Winslow Cohousing: A Self-Portrait by Sarah van Gelder
Residents of the first member-developed cohousing community in the US share their experiences after one year of living together.

Urban Ecosystems by John Lyle
Cities of the future will embrace the ecology of the landscape, rather than set themselves apart.

Cities of Exuberance by Sarah van Gelder
Strategies for transforming cities and their sprawling suburbs, with a focus on the tie between transportation and land use, plus a sidebar on Reurbanizing Toronto.

Reshaping the Urban Design Process by Wendy Morris
Urban planners in Melbourne, Australia, are building consensus among building professionals about building sustainably, plus a sidebar on Women and Suburbia.

The Evolution of Eco-Cities by Tony Dominski
A three-step process toward restoring cities: reduce, reuse, recycle.

Anthropolis by Dan Fischer
A whole-systems vision of a humane, sustainable city