Sustainable Urbanism

 The confluence of sustainabilty and urbanism offers a rich framework for planning, designing, building and managing small cities and towns. 

From sustainability theory we get three ideas: 

• • From Thomas Jefferson we get the aspiration that we should make decisions as though we loved our seventh generation of decendents. 
• • The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 said sustainability is making sure the present generation can meet its needs while assuring that subsequent generations can meet theirs. 
• • There are three spheres of human activity – economic, physical and social; to which I add the “governance sphere” that provides balance and equity to resolve the inherent conflicts between the three operating spheres.