Book excerpt: Inhalt: The environmental crisis : ecological or experiential? -- Anticipating coming unknowns -- Environmental impacts -- Perceived reality : sensory experience -- Soul and spirit nourishment -- Placemaking for people -- Place : identity, continuity and integrity -- Design for community -- Getting around cities -- Connectivity -- Use, space and life -- Design for security -- Settlement form, space and life -- Design processes : how, by whom, how fast? -- Economic vigour as process-driver and shaper -- The primary change-driver : money -- Sustainability and economics -- Future climate : future issues -- Design with the elements -- Ecological design : energy aspects -- Cyclic systems -- Habitat -- Bio-climatic placemaking -- Design for demanding climates -- Everything change : future-proofing -- Material applications : eco-towns, eco-projects and eco-regeneration -- New situation : new approaches -- Sustainability or sustenance?