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The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience Paperback – Illustrated, July 31, 2015

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Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities.

The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns. The same nature-based approach that works so beautifully for growing food―connecting the pieces of the landscape together in harmonious ways―applies perfectly to many of our other needs. Toby Hemenway, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of permaculture design, illuminates a new way forward through examples of edge-pushing innovations, along with a deeply holistic conceptual framework for our cities, towns, and suburbs.

The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we’re not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Readers will find new information on designing the urban home garden and strategies for gardening in community, rethinking our water and energy systems, learning the difference between a “job” and a “livelihood,” and the importance of placemaking and an empowered community.

This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permaculture designers and practitioners. Understanding nature can do more than improve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.

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    July 31, 2015
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    7.5 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1603585265
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1603585262
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Customers find the book offers insightful perspectives and breaks down complex ideas in an easy-to-understand manner. They describe it as a great read that can change their mental framework for the future. The writing quality is also highly praised, with readers describing it as well-written and thorough. Overall, customers consider the book to be worth buying and the gold standard for urban PC texts.

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Customers find the book helpful and insightful. They appreciate how it breaks down ideas in a clear manner. Readers describe it as an informative, inspiring read that can change their mental framework going forward. The book provides a wonderful introduction to design thinking and permaculture in towns.

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"...I recommend this book to everybody and is useful if you are designing a small yard to a few acres or are interested in how we can make cities more..." Read more

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  • danny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Application of Permaculture
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018
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    As always, Toby Hemenway's book is well-written and thoroughly detailed, cited, and thoughtful. Toby starts the book with an introduction to permaculture and then starts to make his case for how a city can be green. The general format of how Toby approaches topics in this book is with a brief history of the subject of that chapter (which is quite useful to see how history has shaped our perceptions and beliefs), and then he applies the same four or five methods to each subject to explain how the needs of that chapter can be met through a permaculture lens. What I appreciated the most from the book was how Toby applied "Mission, Goals, Strategy, and Techniques" to each section. His focus on stepping back from the techniques-perspective of hsi book was especially important for getting me to see the bigger picture and how to find the right techniques for a given situation or place. The most interesting chapters for me were Chapters 8 and 9, which were about human interactions and making a community. I had not considered to think about people this way before, through the permaculture lens, and now it is a lot more interesting to figure out how to improve relationships with others and how to effectively get things done wherever I am.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Everything perfect. Thanks!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
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    Everything perfect. Thanks!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend to Everyone!!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2017
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    Amazing book with very helpful and diverse information and I love how he breaks ideas down so it is easy to understand, but not unnecessarily. I recommend this book to everybody and is useful if you are designing a small yard to a few acres or are interested in how we can make cities more sustainable and energy efficient.
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  • Allen
    4.0 out of 5 stars This is a great thought provoking read. I have notes and highlights all through the book.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2021
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    Great book
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  • Jennifer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Insight from Hemenway
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020
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    Check page 188. The late Toby Hemenway states that because of the abundance of cheap oil, we have added way to much complexity and byzantine complications to transportation, health care, and higher education. Hemenway states that we have too many layers of middle management whose only contribution is a few reports to the layer above them and some scant guidance to the layer below them.
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  • Lorecrystal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2016
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    This is Toby Hemenway's last work before his death in December 2016. It is a wonderful introduction to design thinking, focused on the use of permaculture in towns & cities (where most people live these days). Since I am familiar with permaculture, only about half the book was new information, but it is worth buying for the other books mentioned alone.
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  • Brad B.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read and very inspiring.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017
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    This is a truly amazing book that can change your mental framework going forward. I love how the author addresses all aspects of life through the permacultute lens. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to create a change in culture, whether that be political, ecological, or economical.
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  • Really good start to a great series
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Follow Up To Bill Mollison's pioneering Book Permaculture: A designers Manual!!!!!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2016
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    If you are tired of hearing about all our social and environmental problems and want practical solutions that you an ordinary person can put to easy practice in the city, suburb or town you live in, you have to read this book! This book can help you do things to battle climate change, rebuild run down neighborhoods, and rejuvenate your local environment and economy, n you can start with your own home.
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  • Mrs J Breeze
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2016
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  • Cliente de Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gran adición a cualquier biblioteca de permacultura
    Reviewed in Mexico on March 25, 2017
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    Este libro permite ver a las ciudades con una nueva mirada, optimista. Las ciudades, hoy en día, son producto de la mala planificación que proviene de un sistema de producción que nos aleja cada vez más de la naturaleza. Regenerar ecosistemas urbanos es uno de los desafíos más grandes que tenemos, y este libro permite pensar a los centros urbanos desde el modelo de la permacutura. Sin dudas recomendable.
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  • Cliente Amazon
    3.0 out of 5 stars Valeu!
    Reviewed in Brazil on March 29, 2017
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    É um livro generalista e de leitura pouco agradável, mas tem bastante coisa ali dentro que pode lhe ser bastante útil. Vale!
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