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Interstices of Sustainable Community

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Urban sustainability, at its core, concerns fundamental social relations between humans, and between humanity and nature. It is about more than abstract economic mechanisms or an idealised ‘self’-sufficiency. It is, rather, a collective social enterprise, and as such, any successful movement towards sustainability requires a social framework that in some way includes community processes. More than half a century ago Hillery (1955), in an attempt to define this evasive concept, ascribed the notion of community as having three shared characteristics: interaction, common bonds and a shared geographical location.

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Cooper, L., Baer, H.A. (2019). Interstices of Sustainable Community. In: Urban Eco-Communities in Australia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1168-0_3

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