Sacred Civics - Building Seven Generation Cities

Summary

An open-access collection on shaping cities as if people, land and nature were sacred: worthy of dignity and “defiant of commodification”, rather than religious. “Our greatest challenges are not scientific or technological; they are deeper than that”, its editors begin. Drawing on Indigenous teachings and the commons, they propose “seeing land more as a bundle of relationships and responsibilities”.

Rationale

Town planners are among the people we name as shaping deep dispositions, and this book shows why: a city keeps reproducing the separation it was built on.