The Integral Urban House

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Chicken and rabbit cages take up little of a
Chicken and rabbit cages take up little of a "citysteader's" precious room.
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Vegetables, too, can be raised with space-saving intensity.
Vegetables, too, can be raised with space-saving intensity.
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The Integral Urban House's attached greenhouse only hints at the innovations inside.
The Integral Urban House's attached greenhouse only hints at the innovations inside.

Excerpted by permission from The Integral Urban House by the Farallones Institute, copyright © 1979 by Sierra Club Books. 

The Farallones Institute in Berkeley, California is a non-profit educational and research organization–founded in 1969–that has become a leader in showing urban residents how to become more self-reliant. The Institute’s “Integral Urban House” project began in 1974 with the purchase and subsequent renovation of a large old Victorian house on a 1/8-acre city lot in Berkeley. It has since become a model for a more ecologically sound urban habitat … a home “that helps to support its residents while they support it”. 

The book from which the following excerpts have been taken is crammed full of charts, diagrams, plans, and all the essential how-to information gathered over four years of living with–and refining–the systems of the Integral Urban House.


  • Published on Jan 1, 1980
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