RUDI

** Regeneration & Sustainability ** “The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profits” Franklin D. Roosevelt
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With 'green' issues being pushed to the top of everyone's agenda over the last few years sustainability is a word that you will have heard a lot lately, but for us at Wards Corner sustainability is about much more than simply turning off your lights and trying not to use plastic bags.

Many different modes of thinking influence how we think about regenerating the Wards Corner site, whether it be through the retrofitting of buildings with recycled materials, using permaculture principles to design a more efficient and self supporting ecology or thinking holisticly about how changes to the environment will effect everyone who lives at the site, we always think outside of the demolish and start again principle that most developers operate by.

We ask the question: What is Regeneration and who is it for? We don't consider the removal of an entire community and all of their homes and shops to be regeneration. We cant see how digging up a whole block and laying a slab of concrete to build new buildings on could ever be a sustainable process. We don't think its sustainable for a council and a developer to eject people from their homes in the name of redevelopment and to take away the ability for people to control their futures.

The campaign fights for restoration and truly sustainable practices to be implemented in the community plan for the site.

Below are some links to more information about the things that have helped frame the way we think about how to approach regeneration. =[[Royal Geographic Society Frames|

]]= =**Royal Geographic Society Frames**=

=**Rudi view**=

=**The BURA series**=

= = =Bogota - Building a Sustainable City=