Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took
giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes
a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the
inevitable result of bigness grown out of control-and what can be
done about it. The result is a keenly updated, carefully argued
case for bringing human endeavors back to scales we can comprehend
and manage-whether in our built environments, our politics, our
business endeavors, our energy plans, or our mobility. Sale walks
readers back through history to a time when buildings were scaled
to the human figure (as was the Parthenon), democracies were scaled
to the societies they served, and enterprise was scaled to
communities. Against that backdrop, he dissects the
bigger-is-better paradigm that has defined modern times and brought
civilization to a crisis point. Says Sale, retreating from our
calamity will take rebalancing our relationship to the environment;
adopting more human-scale technologies; right-sizing our buildings,
communities, and cities; and bringing our critical services-from
energy, food, and garbage collection to transportation, health, and
education-back to human scale as well. Like Small is Beautiful by
E. F. Schumacher, Human Scale has long been a classic of modern
decentralist thought and communitarian values-a key tool in the kit
of those trying to localize, create meaningful governance in
bioregions, or rethink our reverence of and dependence on growth,
financially and otherwise. Rewritten to interpret the past few
decades, Human Scale offers compelling new insights on how to turn
away from the giantism that has caused escalating ecological
distress and inequality, dysfunctional governments, and unending
warfare and shines a light on many possible pathways that could
allow us to scale down, survive, and thrive.
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