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Summary
of TRILO-G
A
brief outline of The Shape of the Future,
BRIDGES, and ACTION PROGRAMS, a systematic
exploration of what it takes to evolve functional
human settlement patterns.
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.
ALPHA
- The Shape of the Future,*
as the first book in TRILO-G,
articulates a Conceptual Framework and 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 determine the future of human
society. The Shape of the Future
presents six overarching strategies to change
settlement patterns and thus achieve economic
prosperity, social stability and environmental
sustainability.
SIGMA
- BRIDGES, the second book in TRILO-G,
contains 18 topical chapters that links the
theses, axioms and principles of The Shape
of the Future with the implementation
programs outlined in ACTION PROGRAMS.
OMEGA
- ACTION PROGRAM, the third book in TRILO-G,
illustrates tools which citizens can use to
achieve Fundamental Change in human settlement
patterns and Fundamental Change in governance
structures.
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
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 a
straightforward introduction 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 ideas and
insights found in The Shape of the Future
during the six plus years since this book was
published.
BRIDGES
is the gateway to a multi-media library of
resources. It includes cross-references to all
three components of 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 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 an 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 settlement patterns
expensive, untransportable and ultimately,
unlivable.
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 and leverages and accelerates 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 environment's
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 individuals, Households,
Enterprises, Institutions and Agencies and how
to create and apply BRIDGES.
OMEGA
– ACTION PROGRAMS
ACTION
PROGRAMS is comprised of two major
elements: PROPERTY DYNAMICS and HANDBOOK**.
PROPERTY DYNAMICS is an ongoing,
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 a program of
1000 Friends of Virginia’s Future.
PROPERTY
DYNAMICS connects citizens' most pressing,
immediate concerns with the society-wide context.
The process helps citizens discover for themselves
the underlying causes of the dysfunctions citizens
experience in daily life. PROPERTY DYNAMICS
makes it evident that a comprehensive education
process is essential to individuals, 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.
**
Risse, E M. Handbook: Three-Step Process to
Create Balanced Communities and Sustainable New
Urban Regions. Warrenton, VA:
SYNERGY/Resources, Forthcoming.
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