Permaculture Realized Podcast Episode 9, City Permaculture, Design of Urban Landscapes with Levi Meeuwenberg

Episode 9, City Permaculture, Design of Urban Landscapes with Levi Meeuwenberg

Today’s episode is a little unique because there is no guest to interview. Instead I’ll be sharing some of the many take-aways from a recent Advanced Permaculture Design Course I took in Akron, Ohio.

This will be a way to help share and spread good ideas, as well as a good process for me to review my own notes and become more familiar with the material.

Topics Covered:

• Common Issues of Cities
• Resource Use
• Water Management
• Transportation
• Integrated Diverse Housing Clusters
• Multi-use Districts
• City-Country Relationship
• “The Stranger”
• Pattern Language
• Community Political Voice
• Human Scale City
• Reclaim the Streets for People not Automobiles
• Curitiba, Brazil – A Case Study
• Soil Remediation
• Combined Storm – Sewer Systems
• Ground Water and Run-off
• Retention Basins and Rain Gardens
• Blackwater Constructed Wetland
• Co-Generation with Biomass
• District Heating
• Solar Electricity
• Firewood
• Passive Houses

References from the Podcast:

A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (1977)

The Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane (2012)

Edible Forest Gardens by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier (2005)