| Toward Self-Sufficiency: A Community for a Transition Period Contributor(s): Hunt, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1532059809 ISBN-13: 9781532059803 Publisher: iUniverse OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Government - State, Provincial & Municipal - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 8.5" W x 11" (1.84 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: George Hunt spent more than fifty years as a community planner and landscape architect. This included hands-on work in impoverished and low-income areas which helped him understand the dynamics that hold us back from achieving self-sufficiency. In this book, he outlines a sustainable community project that seeks to solve social problems that most community planners overlook. The pilot project includes numerous ways to make communities self-sufficient, and while it's geared for those in middle- and lower-income brackets, anyone can use its concepts. He explains how multiple-purpose buildings can be used to house a diversity of people, ways to launch a business within the community by collaborating and sharing with others, how to obtain a vocational work/study program offered on site, and more. The book is also a reference manual on transition community design, creating a purpose, the meaning of happiness, sustainable agricultural practices, how to live without stuff, and how to reduce anxiety and depression. |