ecopolis now

Anyone interested in reading the original ‘Ecopolis Now!’ article can find it in Habitat Australia Volume 19 Number 4 August 1991 p.22-28, published by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Or you can just bounce over to the ‘re-print’ here at ecopolisnow.com.

As an advocate of Ecopolis for the best part of 2 decades I was pleased to see the idea given such a beguiling presentation in New Scientist of 17 June.

There has been a good deal of seminal work by far more people than Fred Pearce mentions, but he has done a fair job of bringing together most of the key issues that define an Ecopolis (and the front cover illustration was terrific!).

What I can’t understand is why he misrepresents Christopher Alexander as an advocate for inflexible cities that deny the value of neighbourhoods.