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Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new Preface by Gary J. Coates,
Resettling America was one of the first comprehensive, transdisciplinary books on the crisis of sustainability and the implications of that crisis for the re-design of buildings, towns, cities and regions.
List of contents
Introduction.
Part 1: Vision 1. Future Images, Present Possibilities Revisioning Nature, Self, and Society
Gary J. Coates 2. Sharing Smaller Pies
Tom Bender Part 2: Expression Introduction to Contemplative Community
Richard Baker-roshi 4. Resettling the Shakers: The Abode of the Message, New Lebanon, NY
Elizabeth Rechtschaffen Introduction to Rural New Towns 5. Rural New towns for America
Shimon S. Gottschalk 6. Cerro Gordo: Future Residents Organize to Plan and Build an Ecological Village Community
Christopher Canfield Introduction to Urban Decentralization 7. Self-Reliant Cities: The Rise of the New City-States
David Morris 8. Self-Help Housing and the Cities: Sweat Equity in New York City
Michael Freedberg 9. Community-Controlled Economic Development and Environmental Enhancement: The Case of the Whiteaker Neighbourhood, Eugene, Oregon
Daniel Goldrich, Maureen Good, Steve Greenwood and
Jim McCoy 10. Beyond Solar: Design for Sustainable Communities
Peter Calthorpe with
Susan Benson 11. Urban Agriculture: A Strategy for Transition to a Solar Society
William and Helgar Olkowski 12. The Cheyenne Community Solar Greenhouse Gary M. Garber 13. The David Experience
Marshall Hunt and
David Bainbridge 14. The Appropriate Technology Vision and the Future of Our Communities
Dennis R. Holloway Introduction to Biotechnology and Regional Integration 15. Goals for Regional Development
Peter van Dresser 16. A Renewable Energy Future for Franklin County, Massachusetts
David Pomeranz 17. Strategies for Bioregional Food Systems
George Burrill and
James Nolfi 18. Agricultural Landscapes: Strategies Toward Permanence
Earle A. Barnhart 19. New Roots for Agriculture
Wes Jackson Part 3: Reflection 20. Energy, Eco technocracy and Ecology
Murray Bookchin 21. Planning and the Paradox of Conscious purpose
Gary J. Coates.
About the author
Professor of Architecture emeritus Gary J. Coates has long been recognized nationally and internationally as a leading voice in the movement to create socially, technologically and ecologically sustainable buildings, towns, cities and bioregions.
Coates' contributions have been recognized with numerous awards. At Kansas State University, where he taught for 45 years, Coates was selected as the inaugural Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Faculty Chair. He has received national awards from the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) for his innovative courses on sustainable and regenerative design. Coates was chosen as an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture for a lifetime of "sustained creative achievement" through teaching, research, scholarship and service.
Professionally, Coates has consulted on town planning and architectural design projects, and collaborated with colleagues to help create a number of international professional organizations including: the
Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA); the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU); the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE) and; the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum (ACSF).
