This is a mediocre article (26 page PDF) based on a good idea. Basically, it takes the idea of Taipei's 2012 Learning City declaration (臺北市å¸ç¿’型城市宣言, original, translated), rebrands it as 'EcCoWell' - ecology & economy, community & culture, well-being & lifelong learning, and implements it in Cork. You can see some examples from Taipei in this post-conference article by Denise Reghenzani-Kearns. Each community builds around its local expertise and creates community initiatives, reclaims old properties, and basically use learning to increase well-being and sustainability. This would have been a much stronger paper had the authors focused more on the concept and less on themselves.
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