Shaping Cities as if People, Land, and Nature Were Sacred

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* Book: Sacred Civics. Building Seven Generations Cities. Ed. by Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook. Taylor & Francis, 2022.

URL = https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003199816/sacred-civics-jayne-engle-julian-agyeman-tanya-chung-tiam-fook?refId=700d2361-e4db-4967-89e1-10ec233111ae&context=ubx



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"Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.

The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters.

Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities."

(https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003199816/sacred-civics-jayne-engle-julian-agyeman-tanya-chung-tiam-fook?refId=700d2361-e4db-4967-89e1-10ec233111ae&context=ubx)

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Introductory, framing chapter by the editors at [1]

"Our greatest challenges are not technical or technological; they are deeper than that—they are spiritual and cultural. This chapter frames the Sacred Civics book by inviting imagination and wisdom to shape cities as if peoples, lands, and natures were sacred, laying the foundation for building equitable and regenerative cities where present and future generations can thrive. Possibilities, responsibilities, and deeper societal accountabilities flow from such a recognition, which requires decolonizing our systems and economies, and improving upon how we construct places, shape civic infrastructures, organize, and govern ourselves.

We draw attention to transdisciplinary and Indigenous literatures and worldviews that inform Sacred Civics and explore three transformations needed to create seven generation cities:

(1) evolve economic and governance systems that value common good for all, now, and into the future;

(2) strengthen and expand cultures and institutions of commoning and collective action; and

(3) cultivate and practice wisdom to re-conceive who and what cities are for, and build communities that embrace and nourish all peoples, lands, and ways of being, knowing, and creating."

(https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003199816-2/imagine-shaping-cities-people-land-nature-sacred-jayne-engle-julian-agyeman-tanya-chung-tiam-fook?context=ubx&refId=de8b993f-d5b2-4ad2-9109-5f864206c121)