Sustainable and resilient communities : a comprehensive action plan for towns, cities, and regions / [edited by] Stephen Coyle ; foreword by Andres Duany.
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TextPublisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011Description: xii, 403 p. : ill., mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470918722 (ebook)Subject(s): 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 planningGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780470536476Summary: 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.
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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.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9780470536476
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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