P.A.Yeomans
The City Forest
THE KEYLINE PLAN
FOR THE
HUMAN ENVIRONMENT
REVOLUTION
Keyline
Sydney
First published 1971 by Keyline Publishing Pty. Ltd.
Registered at the G.P.O. Sydney for transmission by post as a book.
National Library of Australia Card Number and I.S.B.N. 0959957804
Copyright.@ P.A. Yeomans Pty. Limited
117 Pitt Street, Sydney, 2000, Australia.
Offered here with the permission of Allan Yeomans (soilandhealth.org/)
To Jane and Julie
Acknowledgements
To my three sons for reading and discussing the manuscript.
To Ken, the youngest, for five years of dedication; I am greatly pleased he has chosen Keyline for his career!
To Neville and Allan, for 25 years of help and wide debate; Neville, as psychiatrist and sociologist, for keeping me up to date on the social and community implications and Allan for his skills on the engineering-industrial side.
Together we have completed the horizons of Keylihe.
A A. Yeomans
October, 1971.
Table of Contents
1 H. E. R
3 The Landscape Design of Nature (1)
4 The Landscape Design of Nature (2)
10 Soil Sense
14 The Bastardisation of Agriculture
Color Plates: 17 plates by Douglass and Elaine Baglin, with valuable commentary; they download as a single document of around a megabyte.