The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy, security, close-knit communites, local and meaninful 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 toghether in harmoniuous ways – applies perfectly to many of our other needs.
This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permacultures deisgners and practitioners. Understanding nature can do more than imporve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.
Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, a seminal work in the field of permaculture, translated into many languages.
From 1999 to 2004, Toby was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological deign and sustainable culture. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. A widely sought-after teacher, Toby consults, lectures, and offers workshops on ecological design. He lives in Sebastopol, CA