The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience

As always, Toby Hemenway's book is well-written and thoroughly detailed, cited, and thoughtful. Toby starts the book with an introduction to permaculture and then starts to make his case for how a city can be green. The general format of how Toby approaches topics in this book is with a brief history of the subject of that chapter (which is quite useful to see how history has shaped our perceptions and beliefs), and then he applies the same four or five methods to each subject to explain how the needs of that chapter can be met through a permaculture lens. What I appreciated the most from the book was how Toby applied "Mission, Goals, Strategy, and Techniques" to each section. His focus on stepping back from the techniques-perspective of hsi book was especially important for getting me to see the bigger picture and how to find the right techniques for a given situation or place. The most interesting chapters for me were Chapters 8 and 9, which were about human interactions and making a community. I had not considered to think about people this way before, through the permaculture lens, and now it is a lot more interesting to figure out how to improve relationships with others and how to effectively get things done wherever I am.

É um livro generalista e de leitura pouco agradável, mas tem bastante coisa ali dentro que pode lhe ser bastante útil. Vale!

good book

Amazing book with very helpful and diverse information and I love how he breaks ideas down so it is easy to understand, but not unnecessarily. I recommend this book to everybody and is useful if you are designing a small yard to a few acres or are interested in how we can make cities more sustainable and energy efficient.

Check page 188. The late Toby Hemenway states that because of the abundance of cheap oil, we have added way to much complexity and byzantine complications to transportation, health care, and higher education. Hemenway states that we have too many layers of middle management whose only contribution is a few reports to the layer above them and some scant guidance to the layer below them.