Patrick Condon’s Rule 6 for sustainable communities: Create a linked system of natural areas and parks

 

 

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Seventh of Eight Excerpts

“The site is to the region as the cell is to the body; just as the health of the individual human cell has everything to do with the health of the human body, so too does the ecological function of the individual site have everything to do with the ecological health of the region,” writes Patrick Condon in his latest book, Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World.

“If sites are the cells to the body of the region, then streams and rivers are the veins. If we extend this analogy even further, the rooftops, driveways, lanes and streets of the urban landscape are the capillaries of the system.”

 

To Learn More:

This is the seventh of eight excerpts published by  The Tyee in September/October 2010. To read the complete excerpt, click on When Neighbourhoods Work With Nature or on Patrick Condon’s Rule 6.

 

Acknowledgment:

The Tyee is an independent publication that is found at www.thetyee.ca It went online in November 2003. According to David Beers, Editor, “We’re dedicated to publishing lively, informative news and views, not dumbed down fluff. We, like the tyee salmon for which we are named, roam free and go where we wish.” Since then, The Tyee has attracted some of the best journalists in B.C. who have broken many important stories.

 

Posted October 2010