The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution

by P.A. Yeomans

Steve Solomon, from SoilandHealth.org writes: This is a tiny book of barely 100 small pages written in very compressed form, chock-a-block full of partially-developed insight. It should not be the first of Yeomans' books that a person reads, as having the background of his earlier works it will become more comprehensible. It is almost a utopian plan for human betterment, having as much or more to do with city planning and landscape architecture on a macro-scale as it does with farming.

Genres: Agriculture

116 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1971

Reviews

[Brad Belschner · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Available free online.) Complicated. I will never think about city planning and farming in the same way again. If you ask me, P.A. Yeomans is the Nikola Tesla of irrigation and soil building. Before diving into this book, you should familiarise yourself with 'Water For Every Farm', otherwise his techniques won't make any sense.

[David Koblos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though interesting enough, and full of good ideas, I would not consider this book as useful as say Mollison's or Hemmenway's books. In this work Yeomans talks about how to design a whole city, taking in consideration topography, the flow of water, etc. On the other hand, what he writes about soil regeneration and water management is fully applicable to any scale of planning.