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"A comprehensive and visionary approach to land-use planning that grounds the unfolding of human communities and economies within an underlying matrix of living systems. This book should help reinvigorate the planning profession at a time of unprecedented change, complexity, and need for resilience."—Stuart Cowan, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
"Silberstein and Maser help us imagine a world in which life is valued more than money and the purpose of business is to serve people, community, and nature."—David Korten, Board chair for YES! Magazine and author, Agenda for a New Economy
"...excellent piece of work... brilliantly written and thoroughly referenced." —Dr. H. James Quigley, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Table of Contents
Sustainable Development: The Concept. True Community is Founded on a Sense of Place, History, and Trust. Nature’s Inviolable Biophysical Principles and Land Use Planning. Planning for a Local Living Economy: Reinventing the Comprehensive Plan. Planning for a Local Living Economy: Nature’s Biophysical Requirements. Reframing the Problem. Modeling the Planning Process after Nature. Implementing the Comprehensive Plan. Monitoring Progress. Ongoing Community Engagement—Citizens as Planners.
