ecopolis now

By the year 2020 over 50 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. Most Australians already do. Clearly, our present patterns of urban settlement are not sustainable. In this article, first published in Habitat Australia, Volume 19 Number 4 August 1991 I introduced the idea of ‘Ecopolis’ (from Eco — ecological, Polis — self-governing city), an eco-city concept based on principles of ecological sustainability, bioregional integrity and social equity.