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Prefiguring Ecopolis: Ecotopian Cities or Niche Markets?

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Chapter 7 explored the ways in which eco-communities such as Christie Walk and WestWyck construct urban places that can cultivate socially and ecologically integrated ontologies. These eco-communities stand as demonstration projects, urban interventions aiming to challenge development-as-usual and catalyse wider social change.

To claim the right to the city … is to claim some kind of shaping power over the processes of urbanization, over the ways in which our cities are made and remade, and to do so in a fundamental and radical way.

David Harvey (2012, p. 5)

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    The research determined a reasonable one-way travel time to be 45 min by car and 60 min by public transport.

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Cooper, L., Baer, H.A. (2019). Prefiguring Ecopolis: Ecotopian Cities or Niche Markets?. In: Urban Eco-Communities in Australia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1168-0_8

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