ABSTRACT
The opening chapter discusses ‘what are green cities’ with subsequent chapters discussing energy, water, transport, food and agriculture, waste, health, economy, recreation, culture, democracy and eco-city institutions. Today, green-oriented planners and the proponents of 'urban villages' believe reducing automobile dependence to be the most important urban design consideration. The house, within a block-enclosed yard, indeed had a 'green roof with grass growing on it, which is considered most energy efficient. In Ithaca, New York, where a large university is situated in a rural area, a co-housing village is being planned for 500 residents. The process of urban design must be green if the result is to be. The 'bourgeoisie' must now include those who are often disadvantaged by urban design: children, the other abled, the homeless, rainbow family, gypsies, lost souls, elders, buskers, etc. Callenbach includes many now-common Green City features; his ideas are embodied in the theory and practice of the extensive California urban ecology movement.
