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                                            November 16, 2007

The Green Cities vision
of Murray Bookchin:
                                                         I'm starting
   "One of our chief goals must be to                    to make a
   radically decentralize our industrialized             collection
   urban areas into humanly-scaled cities and            of these
   towns artfully tailored to the carrying               utopian visions.
   capacities of the eco-communities in which
   they are located.  We need to transform the           No idea what
   current pattern of densely populated urban            I'm going to
   sprawl into federations of much smaller               do with them
   cities and towns surrounded by small farms            yet.
   that practice diversified, organic
   agriculture for the local area and are                    (Perhaps I
   linked to each other by tree belts,                       should
   pastures and meadows.  In rolling, hilly,                 package them
   or mountaninous country, land with sharp                  up as
   gradients should be left covered by timber                trading
   to prevent erosion, conserve water, and                   cards.)
   support wildlife.  Furthermore, each city
   and town should contain many vegetable and
   flower gardens, attractive arbors, park
   land, and streams and poinds which support
   fish and aquatic birds.  In this way, the
   countryside would not only constitute the
   immediate environs of the city but would
   also directly infuse the city.  Relatively
   close by, sizable wilderness areas would
   safely co-exist with human habitats and
   would be carefully 'managed' to enhance
   and preserve their evolutionary integrity,
   diverstiy, and stability."   p. 79, 80


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