The Center for Sustainable Cities and Oikodrom




The Works Of Dr. Heidi Dumreicher, Richard L. Levine
and
Ernest J. Yanarella




Introduction
   The Center for Sustainable Cities has emerged from a 
felt need to integrate parallel concerns driving social movements,
policy issues, and academic development geared toward 
restoring the health and vitality of the Ecosystem and 
repairing and renewing the modern urban habitat. 
Its theoretical work--exemplified by its two founding statements, 
"The Sustainable Cities Manifesto: Pretext, Text 
and Post-text," and "Does Sustainable Development 
Lead to Sustainability?"--has been motivated by
the question: "What is the minimum activity, the 
smallest project, that holds the possibility of 
placing society on a sustainable path?" In grappling 
with this query, it has concluded that the most 
appropriate unit of sustainability is the city 
precisely because it is simultaneously the smallest 
entity capable of bringing toward balance and 
equilibrium all those present-day problems
besetting the modern world and the largest entity 
at which true natural and social sustainability can be managed.


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