Description: Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods Dan Chiras is available to download Product Description: Superbia! is a book of practical ideas for creating more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable neighborhoods.This material is available do download at niSearch.com on Dan Chiras's eBooks, It is about remaking suburban and urban neighborhoods to serve people better and to reduce human impact on the environment.Superbia: 31 Ways to ... Textbook 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: the creation of a neighborhood newsletter to foster a sense of neighborhood identity and cooperation regular community dinners, discussion groups, and baby-sitting co-ops the removal of backyard fences to create park-like spaces for community play areas, or gardens retrofitting homes for energy efficiency, and installing community energy systems. Examples from all over North America and beyond provide real-life proof that citizen planners can create Superbia!...

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