Developing urban ecovillages

Creating urban eco-communities
Building ecological neighbourhoods in cities

Description

Developing urban ecovillages involves designing and implementing sustainable, community-oriented neighborhoods within cities to address environmental degradation, resource inefficiency, and social isolation. This strategy integrates green building, renewable energy, shared spaces, and local food systems to reduce ecological footprints and foster social cohesion. By retrofitting existing urban areas or constructing new developments, urban ecovillages offer practical models for resilient, low-impact living, directly remedying urban sprawl, pollution, and the fragmentation of urban communities.

Implementation

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Claim

An urban ecovillage is a human scale neighbourhood where people know their neighbours and care about them. People can live close to where they work and play and have access to other essential services without use of automobiles. Together, neighbours try to minimize waste and pollution of all kinds. Ecovillages work with surrounding neighbourhoods and the city at large to bring a whole systems perspective to urban planning and community development activities.

Reforming cities into ecological settlements is practical. It is inconsistent to develop ecovillages on undeveloped land.

We have the choice of simply allowing cities to expand constantly, or we can look at cities as being a collection of ecovillages. If we choose the second thought, then I believe even cities can be made more sustainable. The suburbs lend themselves exceptionally well to being turned into eco-suburbs.