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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:34:12 -0700
From: "Kirstin L. Miller" <kleighmi@flash.net>
The Ecocity Sessions

A six week course in Ecocity thinking, theory, design and mapping

taught by Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders
March 7 - April 11
Wednesday Evenings, 7 to 9:30pm
Jerry Brown�s We the People
200 Harrison
Oakland, Ca

Richard Register
Richard Register has over thirty years experience in ecological city theory
and design. In fact, it was Register who invented the term �ecocity� in
1978. His Ecocity Berkeley, Building Cities for a Healthy Future, has been
a classic in eco-urban circles since it was first published in 1987. He is
also the author of three other books, including Village Wisdom, Future
Cities and the upcoming Ecocities. 
  Register founded the International Ecocity Conference Series in Berkeley
in 1990, and has since co-organized three more: Adelaide, Australia in
1994; Yoff, Senegal in 1996; and Curitiba, Brazil in 2000. The Fifth
International Ecocity Conference is currently in planning stages for
Midrand, South Africa, October, 2001. This International Series brings
together the best innovators, educators, administrators and activists in
the field.
  Register�s non-profit, Ecocity Builders, is dedicated to returning
healthy biodiversity to the heart of our cities. Ecocity thinking
visualizes a future in which prosperous downtown centers are open for
pedestrian�s feet, curious children, fish, frogs and dragonflies. Ecocities
also build thriving neighborhood centers while reversing sprawl
development, effectively creating whole cities based on human scale needs
and transportation rather than the current pattern of automobile driven
excess, wasteful consumption and the destruction of the biosphere. Working
through ecological design, planning, projects, advocacy and education, we
will be able cast aside our dependence on the automobile and recreate our
human habitat in balance with nature.

The Ecocity Sessions
This six week course is open to those seriously interested in helping to
create a better world for people and nature through the reshaping of the
built human infrastructure. Basic ecocity theory will be presented, as well
as an overview of the city in evolution, the city in nature, the city in
history and the city today. We will focus on the Ecocity toolbox of
reshaping methods and strategy guidelines for activism. Come prepared to
listen, think, ask questions and get to work drawing, mapping and testing
out your new ideas. 

Week One: Evolution, biological analogy and whole systems vision for the
built habitat.

Week Two: Parameters of the disaster--effects of the anti-ecological city
on localities and the whole world, nature of the car/sprawl/highway/oil
infrastructure contrasted with the pedestrian city. The creative, positive,
fun approach.

Week Three: Great Examples from around the world.

Week Four: More great examples, emphasis shifting to the local.

Week Five: Tools to fit the task, including mapping workshops, TDRs,
car-free housing.

Week Six: Where do we go from here? Using the tools, changing ourselves and
the world we live in.

Prerequisites: a pioneering spirit and a fondness for thinking outside the
box.
Cost: $135
Class size limit: 30 people. 
To reserve a space, send $135 to Ecocity Builders, 1678 Shattuck Ave.,
Suite 66, Berkeley, CA 94709.
Please also call and leave your name and phone number 510-524-4919 (Kirstin
Miller), or email kleighmi@flash.net. 
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I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8 
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)

http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande