Sustainable and resilient communities : a comprehensive action plan for towns, cities, and regions /
Sustainable and resilient communities : a comprehensive action plan for towns, cities, and regions /
[edited by] Stephen Coyle ; foreword by Andres Duany.
- xii, 403 p. : ill., maps
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Communities face substantial challenges - a changing climate, a housing crisis, shifting demographics and lifestyles, and substantially declining federal, state, and local revenues. This is a step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers to implement a 'green action plan' for cities as well as private development. Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving, and economically resilient. Sustainable and Resilient Communitiesdelineates measures for repairing, retrofitting, and transforming our built environments and supporting systems.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780470918722 (ebook)
City planning--Environmental aspects.
Regional planning--Environmental aspects.
Community development, Urban--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Sustainable development.
Architecture and Planning
City & town planning: architectural aspects
Urban & municipal planning
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Communities face substantial challenges - a changing climate, a housing crisis, shifting demographics and lifestyles, and substantially declining federal, state, and local revenues. This is a step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers to implement a 'green action plan' for cities as well as private development. Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving, and economically resilient. Sustainable and Resilient Communitiesdelineates measures for repairing, retrofitting, and transforming our built environments and supporting systems.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780470918722 (ebook)
City planning--Environmental aspects.
Regional planning--Environmental aspects.
Community development, Urban--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Sustainable development.
Architecture and Planning
City & town planning: architectural aspects
Urban & municipal planning