--- product_id: 85826808 title: "Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future" price: "854 kr" currency: DKK in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.dk/products/85826808-sustainable-nation-urban-design-patterns-for-the-future store_origin: DK region: Denmark --- # Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future **Price:** 854 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future - **How much does it cost?** 854 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.dk](https://www.desertcart.dk/products/85826808-sustainable-nation-urban-design-patterns-for-the-future) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description PROSE Award Finalist 2019 Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence As a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sustainable Urbanism , this new book from author Douglas Farr embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential challenge, one with impossibly short deadlines. The vision of Sustainable Nation is to accelerate the pace of progress of human civilization to create an equitable and sustainable world. The core strategy of Sustainable Nation is the perfection of the design and governance of all neighborhoods to make them unique exemplars of community and sustainability. The tools to achieve this vision are more than 70 patterns for rebellious change written by industry leaders of thought and practice. Each pattern represents an aspirational, future-oriented ideal for a key aspect of a neighborhood. At once an urgent call to action and a guidebook for change, Sustainable Nation is an essential resource for urban designers, planners, and architects. Review: An indispensable value for cutting edge Real Estate Investor/Developers! - As a real estate investor and developer focusing on competitive advantage, I have not found a better compendium that serves to keep me, my partners, and project teams, current and connected to leading edge practice and theory in our built world. I am eagerly awaiting the next installment! Review: Mixed Bag of Promising Design Pattern Entries and Nonsensical Entries - The book introduces us to the role better design of buildings and neighborhoods can play in solving the ongoing crisis of climate change, the obesity epidemic, and urban sprawl. The book correctly explains that the human condition has vastly improved around the world, but that these crises threaten our progress and wellbeing. It explains how construction and neighborhood/city planning can help solve these crises and it gives a number of excellent examples of beautiful carbon neutral (or nearly carbon neutral) neighborhoods and buildings from around the world, Canada, Australia, and a couple of examples from Sweden. The book stresses the importance of making buildings and communities carbon neutral, walkable, and enjoyable to residents. In general, the book paints an optimistic picture of the future while acknowledging the seriousness of climate change, the obesity epidemic, and urban sprawl. The book is designed as a textbook featuring a very large number of references, diagrams and charts, lists of facts and colorful illustrations. This also makes the book more expensive. The second half of the book features 70 future oriented design patterns for buildings and neighborhoods. Most of these were well thought out and probably doable. There were a lot of good ideas laid out within these pages. However, I was also disappointed by some entries that were more leftwing opinions than solutions, which is why I cannot give this book four or five stars. I would like to explain myself so bear with me. Chapter 7 feature a utopic burning man neighborhood / pattern, something I would stay away from by 1,000 miles. Chapter 8 features an opinion piece on gentrification as being a dangerous disease that needs to be eradicated. It is presented as fact. I remember so called white flight, and how bad that was, but when the same people return it is even worse, I guess. That’s confusing. Whether wealthier people moving into a neighborhood and thereby improving it and thus making it on average more expensive is good or bad is up for debate. Chapter 11 includes entries opinionating that highways should be outlawed because of social justice, walkability, etc., and there is also other scary leftwing command and control language, which sounds like failure to me. Just because traffic is reduced when you remove local traffic and parking options does not mean that the problem is reduced. If you don’t provide incentives for carpooling or easy access to public transportation you will just move the problem somewhere else. Chapter 12 features a misguided critique of market forces. Despite the opinion that service jobs and manufacturing is the backbone of the economy they pay less because of their lesser economic value compared to, for example, high tech jobs. This is not a market failure. Once upon a time manufacturing was the engine of American prosperity but now it is the “innovation industry”, product design, inventions, software engineering, high-tech entertainment, scientific R&D, biotech, internet, financial services, etc. According to the economist Enrico Moretti every job in the innovation industry creates at least five additional jobs in other sectors. This explains the difference in salaries. These examples plus some poorly explained or unreadable graphs make me recommend this book only with hesitation. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,630,269 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,407 in City Planning & Urban Development #1,447 in Urban Planning and Development #1,587 in Urban & Land Use Planning (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 22 Reviews | ## Images ![Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EthSjnZyL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An indispensable value for cutting edge Real Estate Investor/Developers! *by A***R on August 6, 2018* As a real estate investor and developer focusing on competitive advantage, I have not found a better compendium that serves to keep me, my partners, and project teams, current and connected to leading edge practice and theory in our built world. I am eagerly awaiting the next installment! ### ⭐⭐⭐ Mixed Bag of Promising Design Pattern Entries and Nonsensical Entries *by T***N on May 22, 2023* The book introduces us to the role better design of buildings and neighborhoods can play in solving the ongoing crisis of climate change, the obesity epidemic, and urban sprawl. The book correctly explains that the human condition has vastly improved around the world, but that these crises threaten our progress and wellbeing. It explains how construction and neighborhood/city planning can help solve these crises and it gives a number of excellent examples of beautiful carbon neutral (or nearly carbon neutral) neighborhoods and buildings from around the world, Canada, Australia, and a couple of examples from Sweden. The book stresses the importance of making buildings and communities carbon neutral, walkable, and enjoyable to residents. In general, the book paints an optimistic picture of the future while acknowledging the seriousness of climate change, the obesity epidemic, and urban sprawl. The book is designed as a textbook featuring a very large number of references, diagrams and charts, lists of facts and colorful illustrations. This also makes the book more expensive. The second half of the book features 70 future oriented design patterns for buildings and neighborhoods. Most of these were well thought out and probably doable. There were a lot of good ideas laid out within these pages. However, I was also disappointed by some entries that were more leftwing opinions than solutions, which is why I cannot give this book four or five stars. I would like to explain myself so bear with me. Chapter 7 feature a utopic burning man neighborhood / pattern, something I would stay away from by 1,000 miles. Chapter 8 features an opinion piece on gentrification as being a dangerous disease that needs to be eradicated. It is presented as fact. I remember so called white flight, and how bad that was, but when the same people return it is even worse, I guess. That’s confusing. Whether wealthier people moving into a neighborhood and thereby improving it and thus making it on average more expensive is good or bad is up for debate. Chapter 11 includes entries opinionating that highways should be outlawed because of social justice, walkability, etc., and there is also other scary leftwing command and control language, which sounds like failure to me. Just because traffic is reduced when you remove local traffic and parking options does not mean that the problem is reduced. If you don’t provide incentives for carpooling or easy access to public transportation you will just move the problem somewhere else. Chapter 12 features a misguided critique of market forces. Despite the opinion that service jobs and manufacturing is the backbone of the economy they pay less because of their lesser economic value compared to, for example, high tech jobs. This is not a market failure. Once upon a time manufacturing was the engine of American prosperity but now it is the “innovation industry”, product design, inventions, software engineering, high-tech entertainment, scientific R&D, biotech, internet, financial services, etc. According to the economist Enrico Moretti every job in the innovation industry creates at least five additional jobs in other sectors. This explains the difference in salaries. These examples plus some poorly explained or unreadable graphs make me recommend this book only with hesitation. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Textbook *by A***N on November 4, 2021* It’s a good textbook with interesting facts. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.dk/products/85826808-sustainable-nation-urban-design-patterns-for-the-future](https://www.desertcart.dk/products/85826808-sustainable-nation-urban-design-patterns-for-the-future) --- *Product available on Desertcart Denmark* *Store origin: DK* *Last updated: 2026-09-08*