DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: Learning from Village Homes

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Here is a book that will help add important information how over a long time 
how sustainable communties mature and grow . And Village Homes from it's
beginning in the late 70 help foster and keep this idea alive so we can more
forward now
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http://www.islandpress.org/books/bookdata/designsustain.html

About the Authors

Michael Corbett is principal in the consulting firm Town Planners and
author of
A Better Place to Live (Rodale, 1981). Judy Corbett is founder and executive
director of the Local Government Commission, a nonprofit membership
organization consisting of mayors, city councilmembers, and county supervisors
from across the state of California. She is co-author of Village Homes: Solar
House Designs (Rodale, 1979). 

DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES




Learning from Village Homes


By: Michael Corbett and Judy Corbett 
Foreword by: Robert L. Thayer 
Subject Area: Planning/Design 
Price: Paper: $30.00s 
ISBN: Paper: 1-55963-686-6 
<https://www.islandpress.org/books/order/order.html>ORDERING: How to place
your
order by phone or online.
Available Fall 1999 Island Press.
6x9; 256 pages; Figures, photos, index. 


The movement toward creating more sustainable communities has been growing for
decades, and in recent years has gained new prominence with the increasing
visibility of planning approaches such as the New Urbanism. Yet there are few
examples of successful and time-tested sustainable communities. 

Village Homes outside of Davis, California offers one such example. Built
between 1975 and 1981 on 60 acres of land, it offers unique features including
extensive common areas and green space; community gardens, orchards, and
vineyards; narrow streets; pedestrian and bike paths; solar homes; and an
innovative ecological drainage system. Authors Michael and Judy Corbett were
intimately involved with the design, development, and building of Village
Homes, and have resided there since 1977. 

In Designing Sustainable Communities, they examine the history of the susta
inable community movement and discuss how Village Homes fits into the context
of that movement. They offer an inside look at the development of the project
from start to finish, describing how the project came about, obstacles that
needed to be overcome, design approaches they took, problems that were
encountered and how those problems were solved, and changes that have occurred
over the years. In addition, they compare Village Homes with other communities
and developments across the country, and discuss the future prospects for the
continued growth of the sustainable communities movement. 

The book offers detailed information on a holistic approach to designing and
building successful communities. It represents an invaluable guide for
professionals and students involved with planning, architecture, development,
and landscape architecture, and for anyone interested in creating more
sustainable communities. 

Updated 6/8/99 

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