Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods by Dan Chiras
Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods by Dan Chiras
New Society Publishers | November 1, 2003 | English | ISBN: 0865714908 | 240 pages | PDF | 7 MB
New Society Publishers | November 1, 2003 | English | ISBN: 0865714908 | 240 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Superbia! is a book of practical ideas for creating more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable neighborhoods. It is about remaking suburban and urban neighborhoods to serve people better and to reduce human impact on the environment.
The authors first trace the history of the suburbs, showing how they fail to meet many peoples’ needs. They then describe how existing neighborhoods can be transformed, offering cohousing and new urbanist communities as examples. The reader is then guided through the transformation of a fictitious neighborhood that adopts the authors’ thirty-one steps. Ideas for the blossoming of the suburb are described in order of difficulty, from easy to boldest, including: