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"Transport, housing, pollution, poverty and crime today top the list of concerns for Londoners and the peoples' of cities world-wide and while politicians of all stripes endlessly promise solutions, the daily reality just keeps getting worse. Green spaces are disappearing, public services are deteriorating and inequalities are widening. Those who can afford to, retreat behind gated areas bunker-like, fearful; or through gentrification, redevelop the social effects of poverty out sight - and thus out of mind. This 'social amnesia' is matched by an increasing withdrawal into private life generally and a profound alienation from our human commonality as market values of rivalry and competition seep into every part of society. Paradoxically, in cities where so many people live side-by-side, we feel isolated, separated and alone...
Occasionally though, a sense of the social freedom possible in the city breaks through the public order. In spontaneous encounters and celebrations - in revelry and rebellion; in coming together face to face to discuss, to organise, and in attempting to directly meet our collective needs, an other city life presents itself as possible: a city life of creativity, solidarity, and diversity. A city expressed not as an efficient market machine but as a living ensemble of human relations in balance with its' natural surroundings. It is this social side of the ecological city that is left out of the dominant resource management or environmental planning approach; it is this social side of the ecological city that for present society is revolutionary...
To act for the ecology of a city then, is to go beyond simply recycling papers and bottles or cutting car-use, to exploring and transforming the ongoing relationships and interactions between individuals, the social and the natural worlds; our hopes for community and the wider economic, political and institutional context. This sense of interconnection is intrinsic to an radical ecological approach. It suggests that dealing with the environmental crisis generally, and the effects of cities in particular, requires not only personal lifestyle changes but a radical remaking of social life itself."
Excerpt from 'RTS: Ecology and the Social City', From the Spoof newspaper 'Maybe'; Mayday 2000
Occasionally though, a sense of the social freedom possible in the city breaks through the public order. In spontaneous encounters and celebrations - in revelry and rebellion; in coming together face to face to discuss, to organise, and in attempting to directly meet our collective needs, an other city life presents itself as possible: a city life of creativity, solidarity, and diversity. A city expressed not as an efficient market machine but as a living ensemble of human relations in balance with its' natural surroundings. It is this social side of the ecological city that is left out of the dominant resource management or environmental planning approach; it is this social side of the ecological city that for present society is revolutionary...
To act for the ecology of a city then, is to go beyond simply recycling papers and bottles or cutting car-use, to exploring and transforming the ongoing relationships and interactions between individuals, the social and the natural worlds; our hopes for community and the wider economic, political and institutional context. This sense of interconnection is intrinsic to an radical ecological approach. It suggests that dealing with the environmental crisis generally, and the effects of cities in particular, requires not only personal lifestyle changes but a radical remaking of social life itself."
Excerpt from 'RTS: Ecology and the Social City', From the Spoof newspaper 'Maybe'; Mayday 2000
