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cities seems to be substantially improving the social life and co-operative abilities
within the participating towns, in addition to providing pathways to less dependent
economies and more socially aware communities. But it must be emphasized that
all the discussions and policies being implemented in both Transition Towns and
EcoDistricts are not designed to produce one goal. Change is an ongoing process,
so the adjustments in the Transition Town movement are really designed to promote
a
transition
to a different future, in which there should be constant re-evaluation to
determine whether enough progress is occurring, given the desire to build up local
resilience in order to build a better, more liveable and sustainable future for urban
places. These are more organized and directed movements than the individual, small
scale, bottom-up initiatives being carried out by many individuals and community
groups to improve particular places in cities. These are a diverse, but still useful,
set of modifications that are often known as
tactical urbanism,
with examples pro-
moted by the Street Plans Collaborative (SPC).
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