TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coyle,Stephen
TI  - Sustainable and resilient communities: a comprehensive action plan for towns, cities, and regions 
SN  - 9780470918722 (ebook)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - Wiley
KW  - City planning
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - Community development, Urban
KW  - Sustainable urban development
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Architecture and Planning
KW  - ukslc
KW  - City & town planning: architectural aspects
KW  - thema
KW  - Urban & municipal planning
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780470536476; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - 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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ER  -