Paperback
- 229 pages
1st edition (April 10, 1997) Ecocity Builders
by Philip S. Wenz, Publisher
Here is author Richard Register's experience at the International
Ecocity Conferences as told to ecoTECTURE and reported here.
It [the conference] was pretty amazing.
It was amazing largely because the people who went there actually
lived in a traditional village. It is a black village, actually
a town of about 30,000. They speak French. They are Muslim. They
are polygamist. They have just a whole different perspective on
life, different history and everything.
They have the conference in that setting, and many of those people
who live there gave presentations about their history and their
perspectives and how their city, Dakar, and the villages in that
region work. Also, a lot of the people came from around the world.
The around-the-world-perspective lives indeed in this rich resource.
Presenters represented Brazil, Catalonya, Norway, Senegal, South
Africa, Chile, Russia, Sarawak, Venezuela, Sweden, Cuba, and of
course industrial Europe and America, including the Ithica Ecovillage
in New York where the idea for the conference was hatched.
Register has gone beyond reporting by mere location, however,
and divided the presentations into a dozen useful categories:
- Where Are We, Anyway (Conference Plenary Session Remarks)
- Toward the Ecocity- Cities in Transformation (Reports on Developing Cities)
- Ecocity Theory, Conceiving the Foundations
- Woman's Issues are World Issues are Ecological Issues
- Traditional Villages of the Dakar Region
- Development- Africa and Beyond
- Appreciation, Preservation, Transformation‹Roots and Challenges
- Ecovillages, Housing and Whole Communities
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Eco-technology- Tools for Harmonious Living
- Nature (In the City)
- Conclusions (by Register and others)
All in all, there are some 57 articles on subjects ranging from
the ecological city plan for Bergen, Norway, to the roots of prostitution
in the breakdown of the tradition family and village structure.
Presenters, too, are from all walks of life from woman's rights
advocates to city planners to wastewater treatment experts.
Village Wisdom, Future Cities should be part of every ecocity
designer's library.
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