Subject: Sustainable Communities Urban Ecology P.O. Box 10144 Berkeley, CA 94709 15 Shattuck Square Suite 202 549-1724 The main original driving force behind it was Richard Register, who wrote book call "Eco-City Berkeley" The office sells his book, proceedings from two Eco-City conferences, and various other stuff. Re: More sustainable communities resources Subject: Sustainable Communities Urban Ecology P.O. Box 10144 Berkeley, CA 94709 15 Shattuck Square Suite 202 549-1724 The main original driving force behind it was Richard Register, who wrote book call "Eco-City Berkeley" (I think). He is still involved, but more others are as well. The office sells his book, proceedings from two Eco-City conferences, and various other stuff. Sources of info.: Sim Van der Ryn & Petere Calthorpe wrote a book entitled "Sustainable Communities: A New Design Syntesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns". In the book, they and several other contributers, discuss the topic in Chapters like: The New Suburban Fabric, Design as if People Mattered, Local Self Reliance, Architecture and Biology... This book leads to Calthorpe's current work on the concept of "Pedestrian Pockets", which are mixed-use communities at urban densities, and that are based around regional mass transportation networks like light rail. As the name suggests, walking is actively promoted by the design and the communities are compact. Calthorpe's firm has master planned several villages, including Laguna West, a new community of 5200 people, near Sacramento, CA and he has also presented his ideas in "The Pedestrian Pocket Book: A New Suburban Design Strategy", Princeton Architectural Press, 1989. (There also was an article in the Whole Earth Review about 4 years ago, I think.) You also might contact the US Department of Transportation and ask for two publications of theirs, entitled The New Suburb and Guidelines for Transit-Sensative Land Use Design. The first provides a nice summary of recent neo-traditional community designs. On the East Coast, the Florida-based firm of Duany-Plater Zyberk has been very active in neo-traditional (sustainable?) community design and there are several books out about their work.