Most of us believe that social change is preferable, and pretty much everyone knows that environmental change is essential. This book ably shows that the two go hand in hand, and then sets about showing practical ways of doing it.It's absolutely bristling with ideas, and not only from principle but from demonstrable, researched experience. The nuts and bolts of the ideas are explained with intelligence and clarity, making it all be readily taken on board by the reader.
You put the book down and the ideas resonate around your mind for hours. It ignites such a fire of inspiration, it has such vision but also - crucially - it sees how we get to that vision from where we are now, step by step.
Imaginative, yet with its feet on the ground rather than its head in the clouds, this is a very exciting book because of the sense of *immediate* possibility it brings to suggestions for such radical beneficial changes for London, and indeed cities everywhere. London really could be a model for how to run a sustainable city society.
Truly, this is an important book. Every urban dweller should read it.
