Thursday, 21 May 2009

Thinking about sustainable communities

Garden city small Planning Resource has followed Regen and Renewal in setting up a blog and immediately sparked a little discussion around fantasy plans for sustainable communities...

The image is Ebenezer Howard's 'Social city', 1898.

21 May 2009 14:41:31 | Space and place

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