The go-to guide for those seeking a comprehensive approach to sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level
Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the what, the why, and most importantly, the how of creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places.
This fully revised 5th edition introduces the innovative Community Capital Compass as a powerful tool for maximizing the social, economic, and environmental benefits of complex community and regional decisions, and has been completely revamped to serve US as well as Canadian and other international readers.
Those seeking a comprehensive approach to sustainable community planning and development from the neighborhood to the regional level will benefit from:
- An expanded Community Capital framework which organizes community resources into eight interrelated forms of capital - natural, built, organizational, political, financi