Ecocity thematic chronology: contemporary notable people and events

• Richard Register forms Urban Ecology non-profit organization in 1975 ( Urban Ecology 'Mission Statement’, http://www.urbanecology.org/mission.htm).
• In 1985, Urban Ecology worked with Berkeley residents to create a plan for the Milvia “slow street,” which led to a redesign of the road to slow cars and create safer spaces for bicyclists, pedestrians, and residents.
• Richard Register writes Eco-city Berkeley in 1987 (Register, R. (1987). Eco-city Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA).
• Urban Ecology publishes two newsletters, The Sustainable Activist and The Urban Ecologist, along with Urban Ecology magazine.
• First International Eco-city Conference held in Berkeley in 1990, followed by other such conferences all over the world (Urban Ecology, Eco-city Conference 1990 Report (1990) Urban Ecology, Berkeley, CA).
• David Engwicht published Towards an Eco-City, later reissued in North America asReclaiming Our Cities and Towns (Engwicht, D. (1993). Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living With Less Traffic. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC.)
• With a focus on urban green space and biodiversity, planning Professor Rutherford B. Platt, with assistance from U.S. Man and Biosphere Program, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, US EPA, US Forest Service and National Park Service convened a sustainable cities symposium that was later compiled and edited into a book, The Ecological City (Platt, Rowntree, and Muick (eds.) The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994).
• Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan published Ecological Design in 1995.
• In 1996, Urban Ecology published the Blueprint for a Sustainable Bay Area—a comprehensive publication that examines sustainability on multiple levels and offers specific recommendations for action.
• Patrick Condon promotes sustainable urban design through charrettes, lectures, and publications, such as «Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities”. He established Smart Growth on the Ground charrettes with Smart Growth BC and is currently focused on the Sustainability by Design project, a vision for a sustainable region of 4 million.