Jump-Starting The Habitat Engine

摘要

In the world of professional planners, transportation is the critical link that allows people, goods, and public services to be distributed and reach their useful destinations. The engines of transport, in cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes, pull along the requirements of sustainable civic life in our population centers. Stop the engines, and our modern world creaks to a halt. But the wheels and wings of powered transport aren't the only necessity. Restoration of ecological structure can also serve to advance, to pull along, vital components of our human communities. The Habitat Engine may be an instructive metaphor for the high value of our restoration work for our increasingly changing world.