Watts Professor Continues Longtime Efforts Toward Sustainable Community Development

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"I was a toddler when I wrote the first edition."

That's how Arizona State University professor Mark Roseland sums up Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments, which he says is "a powerful guide for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable and prosperous places."

The book, which was first published in 1992 and recently appeared in its fifth edition, offers tips on how to create sustainable communities, from the neighborhood to the regional level, the Arizona Republic reports.

Roseland, a full professor in ASU's School of Community Resources and Development, says the internet's ability to include an infinitesimal number of edits makes today's print book "outdated the day it leaves the bindery."

Still, he says, his book is a "living book" that can be used as a "living guide" to solutions to today's problems.

Roseland, who is also a senior global futures scientist with ASU's Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, tells the Republic that sustainable community development is about looking at the entire system of a community and ensuring the change process is holistic.

"At the local level, sustainable community development relies on direct, participatory democracy," he says.

"It gives people an opportunity to use their voices to be

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