This glossary defines and categorizes formal and colloquial terms used in relocalization, urban planning, sustainability, and other related disciplines. A Wiki may be developed for this project in the future.
Categories
- A - Architecture and Urban Design
- C - Climate
- E - Energy
- F - Local Food
- LE - Local Economy and Economics
- LA - Landscape Architecture and Ecology
- U - Urban Planning
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Drive Until You Qualify - Term applied to the distance needed to travel beyond the urban core to find an affordable mortgage. Relates to commute-shed of the urban area [source: EnergyBulletin.net; category: U].
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Jevons Paradox - The proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource. It is historically called the Jevons Paradox as it ran counter to popular intuition. However, the situation is well understood in modern economics. In addition to reducing the amount needed for a given output, improved efficiency lowers the relative cost of using a resource – which increases demand. Overall resource use increases or decreases depending on which effect predominates [source: Wikipedia; category: LE.
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Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) - also known as LETSystems are local, non-profit exchange networks in which goods and services can be traded without the need for printed currency [source: Wikipedia; category: LE
].
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Permaculture - Permaculture is an ecological design system for sustainability in all aspects of human endeavor. It teaches us how build natural homes, grow our own food, restore diminished landscapes and ecosystems, catch rainwater, build communities and much more [source: Permaculture Inst.; category: F].
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Slash and Burn Urban Development - Reference to a particular form of urban development that involves greenfield development on the periphery that is subsequently abandoned as it ages and acquires urban problems such as excessive traffic, sewer capacity maximization, architectural obsolescence, etc. Developers then locate new greenfield lands to continue the pattern, highly prized chain merchants follow the new development leaving Class B merchants and aging retail space, and former Class B space degradates further exacerbating urban decay. The degradation is more likely to end if basic urban form and building stock is recyclable or of historic/architectural value [source: C. Ryan; category: U].
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