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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Bastion of Liberalism,
By A Concerned Developer (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Practice of Sustainable Development (Paperback)
This book should be titled, "The Practice of Ignoring Market Demand." It is little more than an promotion for dense urban development and the elimination of the automobile, which is a sustainable concept for only a small portion of our society.
If "smart growth" is so smart, why has it been around for over 35 years, but only a small portion of our society has bought into it? Generally speaking, it ignores market demand and attempts to shape the market in a way that it refuses to be shaped. THAT is an unsustainable practice. Dense urban development can be sustainable - or it can be unsustainable. Suburban development can be sustainable - or it can be unsustainable. The unanswered question (in this book) is: What specific DEVELOPMENT practices contribute to the sustainability we want to achieve? The presumption in this book is that ALL development is unsustainable, so we need to pack people as close together as possible, so we can do as little of it as possible, and everyone can walk to work and shop. Today's automobiles represent an unsustainable practice, but developers aren't in the automobile manufacturing business, nor can they sustainably control market demand for their use. Attempting to manipulate the market's demand for privacy and space is a recipe for financial disaster. Hardly sustainable. I found very little useful information in this book. |
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The Practice of Sustainable Development by Douglas R. Porter (Paperback - August 1, 2000)
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