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COLUMN<br />
Shao Lyn (Right), founder of Eats Shoots <strong>and</strong> Roots, raising the awareness on the need of urban farming <strong>and</strong> permaculture.<br />
tangible, <strong>and</strong> intangible benefits result<br />
from local food system support, these<br />
includes health, the local economy, the<br />
environment, <strong>and</strong> the well-being of the<br />
community, including the social networks<br />
that are vital in nation building.<br />
SHELTHER AND PLACE<br />
Regenerative design is not merely on<br />
the built <strong>and</strong> natural environment,<br />
but the software of it, people, which is<br />
equivalent essential in justifying the<br />
fairshare of our planet resources without<br />
the monopolization by certain<br />
interest groups. The human spirit needs<br />
inspiration <strong>and</strong> nurturing. Communities<br />
are created when people feel attached<br />
to a place <strong>and</strong> attached to people. The<br />
urgent social security we face today is<br />
the inequality within society that has<br />
caused us insecurity in our social living<br />
environment. We need to cultivate<br />
places with a diversity of people, species,<br />
incomes, functions, <strong>and</strong> a varied<br />
built environment that leads to more<br />
tolerance <strong>and</strong> allow these elements to<br />
support each other.<br />
It is utterly gibberish to have a<br />
neighbourhood design that promotes<br />
environmental sustainability but<br />
socially discriminate the rich from the<br />
EPIC Home, a social enterprise which aims to build relationship between the urban <strong>and</strong> rural divide<br />
through the activity of building homes for underprivileged indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia.<br />
poor. This includes the many elite gated<br />
<strong>and</strong> guarded communities we see today,<br />
which I highly doubt its community’s<br />
social cohesiveness can be any better<br />
than that of the low cost flats population<br />
instead. Cities must be designed<br />
to enhance social connections <strong>and</strong> the<br />
serendipitous culture of the street,<br />
which also respects <strong>and</strong> emulates the<br />
spirit of the place. Our built environment<br />
shall build dignified homes for all<br />
members of society, granting equivalent<br />
rights for all to assess to green<br />
space <strong>and</strong> wild space, <strong>and</strong> even, inviting<br />
green+.2014, november-december 31
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