Author
Richard Register
Richard Register is a theorists and author in ecological city design and planning and is President of Ecocity Builders.
Richard Register
Richard Register is a theorists and author in ecological city design and planning and is President of Ecocity Builders.
A friend wrote recently saying she wasn’t aware of “ecovillages” that had a strong edge between higher density full community and immediately adjacent open space. Since I think the visual image of such an arrangement is so interesting and important, I’ll just record my response here.
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18 August, 2010
label_outline Development Policy
bookmark Magazine
Small is beautiful, small is survival, small means thriving deep into the future. This is the theme of my next book, the one I’m working on now, working title: “Shrink for Prosperity – Last Chance for a Happy Future.”
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5 August, 2010
label_outline Climate & Natural resources
bookmark Magazine
Sixty years ago it was the American rush to the suburbs financed by the national government of the USA: GI loans, deductible house interest payments at tax time and free, free at last, thank God all mighty free at last freeways.
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15 July, 2010
label_outline Inclusive Economy
bookmark Magazine
The idea that things have to be polarized and hostile is very bad for us: Communism vs. Capitalism and vice versa unto death of one or the other (when both have positive points), for example. And the old notion that we should not live so excessively on borrowing and save a little more sounds sound.
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17 June, 2010
label_outline Development Policy
bookmark Magazine