Design for Ecological Democracy, Randolph T. Hester, 2006

  • Introduction

    • The State of American Habitation
    • Ecological Democracy
    • Life, Death and Rebirth of Ecological Democracy
    • The Marriage of Necessity and Happiness
    • Design of City and Landscape Together
    • Enabling, Resilient, and Impelling Form
      • Enabling Form: “We Got to Know Our Neighbors”
      • Resilient Form: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
      • Impelling Form: “Make a City to Touch the People’s Hearts”
    • The Glocal Design Process
    • The Focus is Design
    • This Book is for Students of Ecological Democracy

 

  • Enabling Form: “We got to know our neighbors”

    • Centeredness
      • Ten Rules for Good Centers
      • Sociopetal Places, Forming Open Circles
        • P32 Social space
        • P33 Sociopetal space/sociofugal space
        • P33 Interaction distances
        • P33 Shaping the community
      • Places for Community Rituals
      • Nourishing Centeredness Every Day
    • Connectedness
      • Interdependent Adjacencies: What Goes Together and What Doesn’t
      • Transformation and Communication That Unify
        • P53 Slow-street neighboring
        • P53 Fast-street neighboring
        • P53 Studying precedents like Milan reveals streets that carry large volumes of traffic with multiple modes and also are comfortable for pedestrians.
      • Chains, Webs, Flows, Networks, Cycles and Recycles
      • Resource Footprints
      • Wildlife Habitats
      • Ecological Thinking
      • Mutualism and Glocalization
      • Outside the Confines of the Box
      • Things That Don’t Go Together but Might
      • Finding Fish Heads and Tails
      • The Lost Mountain, the Power Map, and the Dirt Contractor
    • Fairness
      • Accessibility
        • P80 In one particularly innovative approach to increase access to urban resources, Michael Southworth worked with low-income teens in Oakland to identify the places that they wanted to visit but were difficult to reach.
      • Inclusion
        • P80 Visual integration/ Visual separation
        • P81 Lafayette Square Park
        • P81 2nd paragraph: ..landscape architect Walter Hood was determined not to exclude any users.
      • Equal Distribution of Resources and Amenities
        • P83 Changing participatory emphasis
      • Paying Attention to Design
      • Mapping Injustices
      • Fair Landscapes Empower
        • P87 Arnstein’s ladder in Fruitvale
    • Sensible Status Seeking
    • Sacredness

 

  • Resilient Form: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness

    • Particularness
    • Selective Diversity
    • Density and Smallness
    • Limited Extent
    • Adaptability
      • Flexible City Form from Natural Process
      • Landscapes of Adaptability
        • P257 Because it is above ground, Kyoto’s water-distribution system has always served many additional functions, such as cherry-blossom viewing, nature play and local awareness of hydrological cycles.
      • Emptiness
      • Landscape and Building
      • Priority Framework and Piecemeal Intricacy
      • Continuous Experiment, Adaptive Management, and Windows of Opportunity
      • Choice

 

  • Impelling Form: “Make a city to touch the people’s hearts”

    • Everyday Future
      • Designing for What People Do All Day
      • Integrating Present Experience with Change
      • Marking Time
      • Inspiring Visionary Futures with the Everyday
      • Everyday Lessons for Designers
        • P297 Street Performance
        • P297 Extend the street inside
    • Naturalness
      • Naturopathy
      • Naturism
        • P306 Tanner Fountain
        • P307 The Floating Lalu Garden
      • Naturalization
      • The Form to Arouse Naturalness
      • The Natural Park
      • Naturalness Impels
    • Inhabiting Science
      • Urban Ecological Illiteracy
      • Native Wisdom, Science, and the Language of Ecological Democracy
      • How Science Is Inhabited
      • What We Need to Know
      • Learning from the Urban Landscape
      • Discovery Landscapes
      • Cultivating Landscapes
      • Instructive Landscapes
      • Scientific Landscapes
      • Argumentative Landscapes（議論をよぶ）
      • LA96C
    • Reciprocal Stewardship
      • Stewarding and Stewarded
      • Native Stewardship Meets Freedom to Withdraw from Civic Life
      • Ecological Necessity and Voluntary Stewardship
      • Many Places at the Table
        • !P370 Process
      • Making Places for Effective Stewardship
      • The Garden Patch
        • P381,382 In terms of the goals of ecological democracy, stewardship efforts are most successful when they satisfy multiple purposes and are least successful when they focus on narrow, exclusive purposes.
      • Active Responsibility
    • Pacing
      • Light Speed and Snail’s Pace
      • Dwelling Pace
      • Learning to Walk
      • Slouching toward Obesity at Car Speed（前かがみに歩く、病的肥満、車のスピード？）
      • Remedial and Preventive Prescriptions
      • Pathfinders Curb the Car
        • !Compare drawing in this page297 and Street lighting (most of the case designed for whole street, car has priority)
      • Living Symphonic Sequences
      • Metamorphic Walks
      • Grounded
        • !P409, Laurie Olin’s attention to the ground plane changes a utilitarian streetscape into an inviting gathering space
      • Walk All Over


  • Epilogue

  • REFS

    • Enabling form
      • 8.Hester “Place of Participatory Design.”
      • 9.Edward C. Relph,
        • Place and Placelessness (London: Pion, 1976)
        • The Modern Urban Landscape(London: Croom Helm, 1987)

 

 

 

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Over the last fifty years, the process of community building has been lost in the process of city building. City and suburban design divides us from others in our communities, destroys natural habitats, and fails to provide a joyful context for our lives. In Design for Ecological Democracy, Randolph Hester proposes a remedy for our urban anomie. He outlines new principles for urban design that will allow us to forge connections with our fellow citizens and our natural environment. He demonstrates these principles with abundantly illustrated examples—drawn from forty years of design and planning practice—showing how we can design cities that are ecologically resilient, that enhance community, and that give us pleasure.

Hester argues that it is only by combining the powerful forces of ecology and democracy that the needed revolution in design will take place. Democracy bestows freedom; ecology creates responsible freedom by explaining our interconnectedness with all creatures. Hester’s new design principles are founded on three fundamental issues that integrate democracy and ecology: enabling form, resilient form, and impelling form. Urban design must enable us to be communities rather than zoning-segregated enclaves and to function as informed democracies. A simple bench at a centrally located post office, for example, provides an opportunity for connection and shared experience. Cities must be ecologically resilient rather than ecologically imperiled, adaptable to the surrounding ecology rather than dependent on technological fixes. Resilient form turns increased urban density, for example, into an advantage. And cities should impel us by joy rather than compel us by fear; good cities enrich us rather than limit us. Design for Ecological Democracy is essential reading for designers, planners, environmentalists, community activists, and anyone else who wants to improve a local community.

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