Richer Futures: Fashioning a New Politics

ISBN-13: 9781849710107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str.

Ken Worpole

Opis

In every area of life, traditional, centralized party politics has been failing and the seeds of a new form of political life are being sown. This is true in housing, health, education, consumption and transport. This book introduces various forms of communication and decision-making, and presents a programme for a sustainable politics.

Spis treści

Part I: People and Ideas -The Anarchism of Colin Ward * Part II: Growing up absurd - Education on a Human Scale * Education for Participation: Art and the Built Environment * Part III: A Roof Over Your Head - Looking Forward and Looking Back: State Provision and Self-help in Housing Policy * Part IV: Other Landscapes, Other Ways - a Peopled Landscape * The Land is Ours * Poverty Power: Community Empowerment in Developing Countries * Part V: Dig Where You Stand - Plots of Resistance: Food culture and the British * Local, Mutual, Voluntary and Simple: The Power of Local Exchange Trading Schemes * Part VI: Fashioning a New Politics - Path Not (Yet) Taken: The Politics of Sustainability * Index

O autorze

Ken Worpole has written a number of books on urban and cultural policy, and a series of influential reports for Comedia, Demos and the Department of the Environment.