Sustainable Urban Planning

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  • Taking up conservative pathway applications which favour the
    use of hydro-generated power, solar power and photosyn-
    thesized energy. The use of non-motor power along with
    the use of proven methods of low-sequestered inputs of
    energy in agriculture, horticulture and viticulture, as con-
    tributions to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Pursuing an equity pathway.Seeking to avoid reversions to
    socially degrading drudgery (for example, hand tool agri-
    culture), yet adopting work practices which engage local
    skills and traditional processes with an element of personal
    job choice.

  • Engagement of waste-avoidance pathways.Viewing waste gen-
    eration and abandonment as an abomination, and an admis-
    sion of failure. Waste production to be regarded as an
    activity which harbours a potential for regains from waste
    minimization and waste recycling.

  • The pursuit of low-capitalization pathways for plant installa-
    tions with low start-up costs, minimal plant costs per work-
    space created, with low maintenance and operating costs,
    and above all achieve a high level of import substitution and
    inward investment.

  • Adoption of efficiency pathway procedures.These engage tech-
    nologies which improve, in terms of all the previous tenets,
    the efficiency and cleanliness of ‘old’ processes, particularly
    through the engagement of a new technology, import
    substitution, toxin control and rationalized cellular phone
    communication.


Box 3.4 Continued

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