Compact Towns And Cities
Examples of this pattern in action:
Landscape and Liveable Environments
Since its inception in 1991, the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments has initiated several projects that aim to demonstrate what our neighbourhoods and communities could be like if they were designed and built to conform with emerging local, provincial, and federal policies for sustainable development. Through a series of design charrettes and workshops, the Chair has sought to reveal, then resolve, the often competing imperatives of sustainable development policy.
Cities Feeding People
A community enjoys food security when all people, at all times, have access to nutritious, safe, personally acceptable and culturally appropriate foods, produced in ways that are environmentally sound and socially just. A combination of hunger in Canadian society, continued degradation and loss of agricultural lands, limited economic viability of small and medium sized farms and a general dissatisfaction with the food system in general has propelled community organizations to action. Excerpt taken from "Urban Agriculture and Food Security Initiatives in Canada: A Survey of Canadian Non-Governmental Organizations" by Jacinda Fairholm.
Organizations whose work incorporate this pattern:
Congress for New Urbanism
Peter Calthorpe
Patrick Condon
Smart Growth BC
References:
Congress for the New Urbanism. Charter of the New Urbanism. McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. New York, NY. 1999.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Modern Library. New York, NY. 1993.
Krieger, Alex, ed. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk: Towns and Town-Making Principles. Rizzoli. New York, NY. 1991.
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