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Global Village Literature Collection

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This is a page to collect electronic books and resources of canonical nature for building local economies and global villages.

Ideally every book gets a subpage to this page!

Sections:

The Basics

Most basic and profound books and concepts on Village (Small Town) building in our era

Village Towns by Claude Lewenz

The Case for Villages

The crisis of modern life and strong necessity for changes in connection with village issues

The Crisis of Rural Areas

The backside of the current trend towards urbanisation

The New Village Concepts

How to stop the urbanisation trend by a redesign of rural communities and have urban people return to the countryside

Enabling technology shifts

How new technologies support decentralisation and local self-reliance Is there a central pattern of enabling technologies (6th Kondratieff?)

Good Practises, Cases, Movements worldwide

description of existing experience – real stories, cases, movements..

History and Precious Traditions of Rural life

National and cultural characteristics of local development strategies worldwide in past and present

JAPAN

CHINA

INDIA

LATIN AMERICA

RUSSIA

Europe

USA

The Elements

How do certain elements of new villages work in a globalized world

Community Organizing and Governance

The social matrix of local development; community development - tools and projects

Local and Global Economy - the Logics of Exchange

Alternative economy (theories, tools, experience), Funding and coexistence with economies at large.

Buildings & Village Design Principles

The gestalt of the new habitat

Energy Production

Food Production & Nutrition

Decentralized Material Production of Goods

Rural Health Care

Rural Social Maintainance and Welfare Systems

Education