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The
three books that comprise TRILO-G
are intended to provide the information necessary
for citizens to evolve functional human settlement
patterns, a prerequisite to achieving a
sustainable trajectory for civilization. TRILO-G
will be presented on a single CD-ROM to be
released in mid-2008.
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ALPHA
- The Shape of the Future,*
as the first book in TRILO-G,
articulates a Conceptual Framework and the Vocabulary necessary to understand human
settlement patterns. This book documents how
the patterns and densities of land uses impact
the everyday lives of citizens and
collectively determines the future of human
society. The Shape of the Future
presents six overarching strategies to
fundamentally change
settlement patterns and thus achieve economic
prosperity, social stability and environmental
sustainability.
ALPHA
– The Shape of the Future (Fourth
Printing)
The
Shape of the Future: (Vol I) The Critical,
Overarching Impact of Human Settlement Pattern on
Citizens' Economic, Social and Environmental
Well-Being and (Vol II) Prospering
in 21st Century New Urban Regions was
published in January, 2000. The fourth
printing of The Shape of the Future,
presented in PDF format, includes corrections and
clarifications necessary since the third printing
in 2005. For more information on The Shape
of the Future, see the book’s
description including the “Look Inside the
Book” feature at www.Amazon.com.
The CD-ROM containing The Shape of the Future
and supporting resources is also available at Bacon's
Rebellion.
SIGMA
– BRIDGES
BRIDGES
is an evolving, “unfinished,” reference book
presented in topical chapters. Each of the 18
chapters provides an overview and links to
resources that document current, real-world
examples of how human settlement patterns (the
patterns and densities of land use) impact and
control the lives of citizens. These chapters
demonstrate how settlement patterns reflect and
also determine the economic, social and physical
forces that control the quality of citizen’s
lives.
As
the title suggests, BRIDGES connects
the insights, theses, axioms, principles, Five
Natural Laws and six overarching strategies laid
out in The Shape of the Future*
with the tools presented in ACTION PROGRAMS.
Citizens can use these tools to bring about
Fundamental Change in human settlement patterns
and Fundamental Change in governance structures.
The chapters of BRIDGES provide
straightforward introductions to data, facts and
current events. These resources demonstrate the
need for comprehensive citizen education and
innovative programs necessary to evolve functional
human settlement patterns. BRIDGES
also articulates the evolution of the concepts
found in The Shape of the Future
during the seven years since this book was first
published.
BRIDGES
is the gateway to a multi-media library of
resources. It cross-references all three books
that comprise TRILO-G and explores
contemporary citizen concerns. BRIDGES
employs current, topical events to illustrate the
importance of functional human settlement patterns
and assists readers in the visualizing and
understanding the differences between functional
and dysfunctional patterns and densities of land
use. BRIDGES 18 chapters provide
introductions and summaries of over 100 Bacon’s
Rebellion columns and Backgrounders as well as
reports, programs and presentations. The
following is the annotated table of contents of BRIDGES:
I.
INTRODUCTION TO BRIDGES
1.
Executive Summary
II.
SETTLEMENT PATTERN CRISES
2.
A 200-Million Car Pile-Up: The Mobility and Access
Crisis
How
excessive use of Large, Private vehicles generate
and escalate dysfunctional human settlement
patterns and result in economic, social and
physical gridlock.
3.
Without Shelter: The Affordable and Accessible
Housing Crisis
How
counterproductive land-use policies and programs
create wreckage in residential real estate markets
and turn the American Dream into a Global
nightmare.
4.
Helter Skelter: The Disaggregation Crisis
How
the scatterization of urban land uses across the
Countryside disaggregates contemporary
civilization and makes Regional settlement
patterns expensive, untransportable and
ultimately, unliveable.
III.
CIVILIZATION’S TRAJECTORY
5.
Greed, Excess, Entitlements, Windfalls and
Subsidies: Widening the Wealth Gap and Paving the
Road To Entropy and Chaos
How
Mass Over-Consumption, Winner-Take All Competition
and unrealistic expectations concerning
entitlements, windfalls, subsidies and speculation
distort human settlement patterns. These
forces leverage and accelerate the unsustainable
trajectory of civilization.
6.
Virtual Unreality: The Illusion That There Is an
Exit
How
citizens fool themselves about the ability to
escape from economic, social and physical
reality.
IV.
INITIAL STEPS ON THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABILITY
7.
Gibberish: The Vocabulary of Babel
How
confusing use of words and phrases makes citizens
unaware of their own self-interests, renders
political debates unintelligible, creates
counterproductive market and governance actions
and perpetuates dysfunctional human settlement
patterns.
8.
Building Blocks: The Physical Structure of
Contemporary Society
How
a Comprehensive Conceptual Framework clearly
portrays the organic components of human
settlement and provides a framework for
understanding the built environments
interrelationship with the economy, society, the
natural environment and the future of
civilization.
9.
The Clear Edge: The Compelling Need for
Demarcation
Why
a distinct boundary between the Urbanside and the
Countryside establishes a basis for functional
human settlement patterns and a sustainable
future.
V.
THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
10.
Prospering on a Finite Planet: Getting our Arms
Around Resource Reality
Why
an understanding of energy consumption, energy
conservation and energy independence must inform
action on Climate Change, Globalization and
creating sustainable New Urban Regions.
11.
Fundamental Change or Collapse: There Is No Time
But the Present
How
the short-, medium- and long-term survival of the
desirable aspects of “The American Way of
Life” requires citizens to spurn
Business-As-Usual and embrace Fundamental Change
in human settlement patterns and an ethic based on
sustainability. Exponential “Growth” is
incompatible with evolving a sustainable society.
12.
What Don’t You Understand? Fundamental Change
Means Fundamental Change
Why
achieving sustainable human settlement patterns
requires a Fundamental Change in human settlement
patterns and a Fundamental Change in governance
structures, not just tinkering, Business-As-Usual
and Politics-As-Usual.
VI.
THE PATH TO SUSTAINABILITY
13.
The Use and Management of Land: The Absolute
Necessity of Intelligent Quantification of Human
Settlement Patterns
How
quantification opens the door for citizens to
reconstruct, reform, rehabilitate, remodel, renew
and recover land and the built environment.
14.
What Did I Tell You? Anatomy of Opportunities Lost
How
past experiences validate the absolute need for
new initiatives and the need for Fundamental
Change.
15.
Dialogue With Fahmah: Hard Questions About Living
and Working in the Countryside Explored
How
to value and preserve land for extensive, nonurban
uses while supporting Balanced but Disaggregated
Communities in the Countryside.
16.
Tools to Support Citizen Understanding of the Way
Forward
How
to access and use the tools needed to achieve the
Fundamental Changes that are required to climb out
of the quicksand before it is too late.
17.
Fireside Reading: Sources of Understanding on the
Path to a Sustainable Future
How
others view aspects of achieving a sustainable
trajectory for civilization.
18.
The Role of BRIDGES.
How
we get from where we are to where we need to be as
a society and as individual citizens, Households,
Enterprises, Institutions and Agencies. How
to create and apply BRIDGES.
OMEGA
– ACTION PROGRAMS
ACTION
PROGRAMS is comprised of two volumes: PROPERTY
DYNAMICS and HANDBOOK. PROPERTY
DYNAMICS is an open-ended, comprehensive
citizen education process designed to help
citizens understand the dynamics of human
settlement patterns and how these patterns impact
the safety and happiness of citizens. PROPERTY
DYNAMICS is an activity of 1000 Friends of
Virginia’s Future.
PROPERTY
DYNAMICS connects citizens most
pressing, immediate concerns with society-wide
context. The process helps citizens discover, for
themselves, the underlying causes of the
dysfunctions experienced in daily life. PROPERTY
DYNAMICS makes it evident that a
comprehensive education process is essential to
individual citizens, Households, Enterprises,
Institutions, Agencies and society in general if
there is to be a sustainable trajectory for
civilization. PROPERTY DYNAMICS also
demonstrates the need for:
HANDBOOK
articulates a Three-Step Process with tools
citizens can use to bring about Fundamental Change
in human settlement patterns and Fundamental
Change in governance structures. The process
can start at any scale from Neighborhood to Region
and is designed to evolve to involve entire New
Urban Regions and Urban Support Regions.
HANDBOOK
has been drafted to apply the Three-Step Process
to achieve Balanced Communities in sustainable New
Urban Regions and Urban Support Regions throughout
the United States. HANDBOOK also
outlines strategies that are applicable to other
First World nation-states.
*
Risse, E M.; The Shape of the Future: (Vol
I) The Critical, Overarching Impact of Human
Settlement Pattern on Citizens' Economic, Social
and Environmental Well-Being and (Vol
II) Prospering in 21st Century New Urban Regions;
Warrenton, VA: SYNERGY/Resources, 2000.
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