No place like home: Building sustainable communities

by Marcia Nozick

A book which challenges the conventional wisdom on social and economic development, No Place Like Home provides an alternative vision of how we can develop sustainable communities. Both critical and constructive, and written in language which everyone can understand, this book draws together five major themes, each a component of sustainable economic self-reliance; ecological development; getting community control over resources; meeting individual human needs; and, building a community culture. How these five themes interact and reinforce each other in practice is illustrated with lively examples drawn from communities across North America. The result is a book which cannot fail to inspire community workers everywhere and give researchers and urban planners much to think about.About the Marcia Nozick lives in Winnipeg where she is active in urban, ecological and community issues through her work with Greening the Forks (dedicated to saving historic lands) and the Manitoba Institute for Community Ecology. She holds a Master's degree in City Planning, has taught at the University of Manitoba, and is currently the publisher of City Magazine, a national magazine on community and planning issues in Canada.

237 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1992