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“Precinct” is already well established in the vocabulary of urban living in the United States, and of architecture, e.g., “The creation of the locality with its precinctual character is a major task of architecture, but it has been completely forgotten in the speculative building and in the housing estates of the past half-century.” From Henry Morris, “Architecture, Humanism and the Local Community”, lecture to the Royal Institute of British Architects, 15 May 1956, reprinted in Colin Fletcher and Neil Thompson (1980), Issues in Community Education.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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