Human scale revisited : a new look at the classic case for a decentralist future / Kirkpatrick Sale.

"Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale;, and today takes a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of bigness grown out of control -- and what can be done about it. The result is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sale, Kirkpatrick (Author)
Language:English
Published: White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2017]
Subjects:
Economic history.
Decentralization in government.
Environmental policy.
Technology > Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
ARCHITECTURE > Sustainability & Green Design.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Physical Description:393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Parthenothanatos
  • Crises of civilization
  • The human-scale future
  • The beanstalk principle
  • The condition of bigness
  • Beanstalk violations
  • Prytaneogenesis
  • The law of government size
  • Ecological hubris, ecological harmony
  • Human-scale technology
  • We shape our buildings
  • The search for community
  • The optimum city
  • Human-scale services
  • Economy of global reach
  • Steady-state economy
  • The logic of size
  • Workplace democracy
  • Self-sufficiency
  • The malaise of citizenship
  • The decentralist tradition
  • Society without the state
  • The "necessity" of the state
  • The importance of size: Harmony
  • The importance of size: Democracy
  • Parthenogenesis.