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From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design Paperback – April 18, 1994

by Nancy Jack Todd (Author), John Todd (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
From Eco-cities to Living Machines presents the ecologically-based working designs and prototypes of biologist John Todd and writer and environmental activist Nancy Todd. Since 1969 with the founding of New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, the Todds have become known world-wide for their leadership in the restoration of pure water, bioremediation of wild aquatic environments, food production, and urban design. In this new book, the Todds further develop the idea of Eco-cities, designs for integrating agriculture and flowing pure water into green urban settings and introduce Living Machines, a family of technologies for purifying wastewaters to tertiary quality effluent without chemicals. Provocative and grounded firmly in the principles of biodiversity, the Todds' work encompasses site-specific technological interventions and systems-wide ecological planners and designers, environmental economists, and systems-based engineers working to change the way we utilize production, technology, water and energy.
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  1. Print length
    224 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    North Atlantic Books
  4. Publication date
    April 18, 1994
  5. Dimensions
    6.8 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1556431503
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1556431500
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"If these Living Machines of John Todd's succeed in creating an immune system for truly cultured ecologies, then we really will have a new age. We've glimpsed its science; now all we have to do is envision its appropriately symbiotic politics."
-William Irwin Thompson

"He [John Todd] is a visionary, with an uncanny knack for ecology. He is as much artist as scientist, but his medium is biology."
—Donnella Meadows, Harrowsmith Magazine

"We recognize his [John Todd's] pioneering work in developing Solar Aquatics, and environmentally responsible family of technologies for wastewater purification and reclamation."
—William Reilley, Past Directory of the Environmental Protection Agency, presenting the first Chico Mendes Memorial Award to John Todd.

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Biologist Dr. John Todd and writer Nancy Jack Todd have been honored with major global environmental awards, including the Threshold and Environmental Programme Award. Nancy Jack Todd publishes Annuals of Earth for the Center for the Restoration of Water at Ocean Arks International and writes widely about international environmental affairs.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 18, 1994
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Subsequent
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1556431503
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1556431500
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.8 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
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  • Daniel Orlich
    5.0 out of 5 stars new approacj and ideas
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2000
    Format: Paperback
    Dr. Todd presents us with clear, easy and very logical ideas of how we should live and build our cities. This book should be a required reading for most professionals that deal with development. I would like to see a second book with more hands on examples.
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  • J. Brown
    4.0 out of 5 stars A name is needed for this discipline!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2015
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    The book was a little disappointing. It's a re-write of their earlier book, with some new material. The thing I keep looking for in the literature on Living Machines is some kind of prescription, "if the purpose of your machine is x, then assemble y, z, and w." But maybe it can't be done that way: maybe what the Todds were doing was just to find as many different organisms as they could, and mix them all together, hoping that the system would evolve in not too long a time into the thing that was wanted. Can't be called engineering that way, but maybe a new term is necessary for this technique.
    BTW, the drawings in the book are excellent.
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  • S. Morkin
    3.0 out of 5 stars not much new since 1985
    Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2004
    Format: Paperback
    While I find Dr. Todd's work inspiring, this time around I was disappointed by this particular book. There isn't much new in it since the 1985 publication of Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, and City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design. For example, Eco-Cities lifted at times the same paragraphs and sentences from Bioshelters when describing the Cape Cod Ark, the Margaret Mead sailing boat, the Lindisfarne Hamlet, and rooftop gardens.
    If you haven't read the 1985 book, then I could see how Eco-Cities deserves a throrough reading. If you have read Bioshelters than I would not purchase the new book, Eco-Cities, but take a glance at it at your local library instead.
    I'm currently trying to organize an association in Paris, France to build an apartment complex using the ideas found in both Bioshelters and Eco-Cities. But I'm finding it difficult to gather concrete examples, blueprints, or even contact numbers for architectural firms with the experience to do so. I'd like to encourage the folks at Ocean Arks International to publish a book like Eco-Cities but move past concepts and give us a technological guide for actually creating eco-cities.
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  • end-user
    4.0 out of 5 stars Living Machines
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2005
    Format: Paperback
    I found the book to be very informative. It was specific enough to understand his work even if you aren't a biologist yet tied together nicely with an holistic paradigm that wasn't overdone. His vision of the ideal future for urban planning seemed reasonable and worth aiming for.
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