INTRO

Welcome to Resource Vision notes.

This is a way for me, John Manoochehri, and colleagues, share analysis, explainers and notes on important issues for sustainability, together with designs and tools - and support conversations and collaborations around them.

Main themes include:

• Sustainability science and policy
• Sustainable architecture and urban design
• Design tools and methods
• History of sustainability policy and advocacy
• Economic theory
• Architectural theory
• Policy, science, analysis tools and methods
• Urbanisation including housing, retail, construction

There are two more precise goals, beyond sharing content and supporting exchange:

• creating a set of reliable resources: there's huge number of people coming into the sustainability space and wondering where they can find reliable content. This needs to be both accessible and deep, not shy away from political tensions and complexity but not drive a crudely ideological or simplified view either.
• bridging between the policy/science and built environment/design worlds: I have spent a lot of time linking environmental science and policy to the built environment, specifically architectural and urban design. It seems to clear to me that the built environment is the context for largest changes toward sustainability - but design and real estate practitioners need to know their ABCs of sustainability; and sustainability folks need to get grips with the reality of cities, buildings and design.