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Our understanding of sustainability arose from the work of women writers in the 60s and 70s. In 1961 Jane Jacobs writes The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a riposte to modernist planning in general and Robert Moses and Le Corbusier in particular

Tone on Tuesday 103: The four stages of sustainability and my part in its serial failures

Last month I was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award, most likely for staying power as I've been involved in sustainability for over 50 years. In my acceptance speech I commented on “what a long, strange trip it's been”, and I described four distinct stages of sustainability in the built environment, although for much of that time it wasn’t called that.
Tone Wheeler
Tone Wheeler

07 Dec 2021 8m read View Author