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Aberley, Doug
Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment (New Catalyst 6)
NSP 144pp ISBN: 0-86571-272-7 $11.95
Volume 6 in the New Catalyst Bioregional Series. A manual on how community activists can design their own maps of their local community, thus challenging the expertise of corporate and governmental planning models. Chapters include: Aboriginal mapping, mapping the experience of place, Current Mapping Thought, How to Map your Bioregion, Access to further resources.

Aberley, Doug (ed)
Futures By Design: The Practice of Ecological Planning (New Catalyst 7)
NSP 144pp ISBN: 0-86571-298-0 $17.95
Volume 7-8 in the New Catalyst Bioregional Series. ‘Covers the history and theory of ecologically sound planning, and introduces a variety of planning perspectives including permaculture, social ecology, participatory planning, and bioregionalism. It explores in depth efforts to create green cities and eco-villages. Contains step by step guides to ecoregional planning, and ecosystem identification and preservation.' Doug Aberley is a long time bioregionalist, with a career in town planning.

Alvord, Katie
Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
NSP 320pp ISBN: 0-86571-408-8 $22.95
Not so much a book about planning for a car-less future, more a practical book about how to organise your life without your car, or at least to reduce your dependence.

Bullard, Robert D. & Johnson, Glenn S. (eds)
Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility
NSP 208pp ISBN: 0-86571-357-X $18.95
Transportation barriers can create profound obstacles to job oportunities and quality of life. The authors reveal the uneven distribution of public transport to the wealthy and educated.

Engwicht, David
Reclaiming our Cities and Towns
NSP 192pp ISBN: 0-86571-283-2 $14.95
David Engwicht illustrates how city planners and engineers have virtually eliminated effective human exchange by building more roads in the name of "progress," thus taking commerce out of the cities and into strip malls, gutting our communities, and increasing traffic fatalities. David Engwicht points the way toward "eco-cities" where people can move (via foot, bicycles, and mass transit) and interact freely without fear, and and without absorbing deadly toxins. Advocating community control, this is an excellent how-to book on organizing and planning for sustainable urban development. It will change every reader's view of the urban environment.

Engwicht, David
Street Reclaiming: Creating Livable Streets and Vibrant Communities
NSP 208pp ISBN: 0-86571-404-5 $24.95
Part social history and part community-activist handbook, Street Reclaiming celebrates the potential of our streets to become vibrant and prosperous centers of culture and community once again. A step-by-step process to psychologically and physically reclaim our streets, starting with a simple six-week program to reduce traffic by 30%-50% (without involving local officials), then introducing psychological reclaiming techniques that the whole community can participate in to counter car culture and exert the community's rights to the street. The last stage calls for actual physical reclaiming: converting traffic space into community spaces that will enhance the social fabric of the neighborhood.

Norwood & Smith
Rebuilding Community in America: Housing for Ecological Living, Personal Empowerment, & the New Extended Family
Shared Living Resource Center 406pp ISBN: 0-9641346-2-4 $31.90
An exciting resource for those interested in shared housing options or intentional communities. Chapters include: Starting a community, the Village Cluster, Rural communities, Community in the city, Designing for group living, the celebration of food, tools and techniques. A pioneering work on shared housing options.

Reclus, Elisee
The Evolution of Cities
JURA 22pp ISBN: 0-909437-04-8 $1.40
From tribal groups to town planners' mayhem Elisee Reclus traces the development of urbanisation, and its impact on city dwellers.

Sculthorpe, Harold
Freedom to Roam
Freedom 80pp ISBN: 0-900384-68-9 $12.30
Short articles on the encroachment on the traditional rights of walkers and others in enjoying the peace of the British countryside, by the military, large landowners, factory farmers, and water companies conjoining to try to exclude walkers from much of the land for their own nefarious purposes. Even the British National Trust comes in for criticism of its estate management. Highly readable account of people fighting to maintain their traditional rights of access to the British countryside today.

Various
Architectur(e)
AS 160pp ISBN: 0-936756-84-5 $18.00
Large format mixture of text and graphical images ostensibly on architecture. May interest you, if you like esoterical surrealistic critiques of established orthodoxy.

Various
Lock Out the Landlords!
Barnacle 24pp ISBN: MS-23 $1.30
This pamphlet chronicles australian eviction resistance between 1929 and 1936 during the great depression.

Ward, Colin
Freedom To Go: After the Motor Age
Freedom 112pp ISBN: 0-900384-61-1 $12.30
An anarchist approach to the problems of transport. Personal mobility is a priceless human achievement which is a 20th century disaster: it has destroyed the urban environment, it has cost more lives than modern wars, it has wasted both energy resources and the ozone layer. Can we have the freedom to go and a viable future? This book argues the case for the valid alternatives.

Ward, Colin
Housing is Theft Housing is Freedom
24pp ISBN: 0-907123-05-8 $2.00
A transcript of a talk given in 1983 to the Nottingham Anarchist Group. This provides a concise statement of an Anarchist perspective on housing from a major U.K. Anarchist academic and author.

Ward, Colin
Reflected in Water: A Crisis of Social Responsibility
Cassell 192pp ISBN: 0-304-33568-1 $27.70
Water, the primary requirements for human existence, is a common good, belonging to all. Yet, from privatization in Britain to the displacement of millions through dam building in the developing world, it has been appropriated as a commodity by the powerful. In this wide ranging and illuminating book, Colin Ward examines the unequal distribution of water on a global scale. Export crops are irrigated, subsistence crops wither, yet all through history local communities have devised ways of ensuring fair shares of a vital and limited resource. This book re-asserts the claim for local community control of access to water. from the Dust jacket.

Ward, Colin
Social Policy: an anarchist response
Freedom 89pp ISBN: 0-900384-98-0 $17.60
In 1995-96, Colin Ward was the visiting Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics. This volume collects all the talks he gave during his tenure. Topics covered Housing, Water, Welfare Reform as well as his views on Anarchism in the 21st Century.One of the most accessible and entertaining Anarchist writers.

Ward, Colin
Talking Houses
Freedom 142pp ISBN: 0-900384-55-7 $17.60
In these ten lectures Colin Ward outlines an anarchist approach to housing. From the foreward: "The application of anarchist ideas to the basic need of human shelter is dweller control."

Ward, Colin
Talking to Architects: Ten lectures by Colin Ward
Freedom 141pp ISBN: 0-900384-88-3 $17.60
Essays on architecture and housing by this prominent anarchist.