Designing permaculture housing developments (on-line)

THE APPLICATION OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING ENVIRONMENTS

The delivery of low cost greenfield housing development in South Africa is generally characterised by low density, dysfunctional, monoculture environments that fosters urban sprawl, and which in turn, hinders opportunities for socio-economic upliftment. This paper uses Permaculture design concepts to show how sustainable and holistic greenfield housing developments can be designed to cater for more functional and safer housing with greater opportunities for urban agriculture, open space systems and community facilities.