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Dream Play BuildHands-On Community Engagement for Enduring Spaces and Places
The room is dim, the chairs are in perfectly lined rows. The city planner puts up a color-coded diagram of the street improvement project, dreading the inevitable angry responses. Jana loves her community and is glad to be able to attend the evening meeting, and she has a lot of ideas for community change. But she has a hard time hearing, and can't see the diagrams clearly. She leaves early. It…
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Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. T…
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Life Between BuildingsUsing Public Space
". . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening..." —Jane Jacobs "This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, fi nd a comfortable place to sit in a public park or plaza, begin readi…
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Making Healthy PlacesDesigning and Building for Health, Well-being, and Susta…
The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching…
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Natural Hazard MitigationRecasting Disaster Policy And Planning
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability. Natural Hazard Mitigation describes and analyzes the way that hazard mitigation has been carried out in th…
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Reshaping the Built EnvironmentEcology, Ethics, and Economics
Because of the profound effects of the built environment on the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in working to put society on a path toward sustainability. This volume presents the thinking of leading academics and professionals in planning, civil …
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The End of Automobile DependenceHow Cities are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning
Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities …
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The Hidden Potential of Sustainable NeighborhoodsLessons from Low-Carbon Comm…
How do you achieve effective low-carbon design beyond the building level? How do you create a community that is both livable and sustainable? More importantly, how do you know if you have succeeded? Harrison Fraker goes beyond abstract principles to provide a clear, in-depth evaluation of four first generation low-carbon neighborhoods in Europe, and shows how those lessons can be applied to the…
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Bedside Essays for Lovers (of Cities)
In this provocative collection of essays, renowned architect Daniel Solomon delves into the complexities of what makes a city vibrant. Acknowledging that a city is not a static thing, he argues we need to pay more attention to nurturing what he calls "continuous cities." In such a city, he says, "new buildings, new institutions, and new technologies don't rip apart the old and wreck it. They ac…
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Biodiversity Planning and DesignSustainable Practices
Biodiversity Planning and Design empowers landscape architects, urban planners, and environmental professionals to take an active, informed role in protecting biodiversity through practical design and planning strategies. As habitat loss continues to be the leading driver of biodiversity decline, this book offers a clear path for integrating ecological goals into built and natural environmentsâ…
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