Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs / by Jonathan Barnett, Larry Beasley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Jonathan., Author.

Beasley, Larry., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Environmental Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Environmental Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 265 p. 132 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In six comprehensively illustrated chapters, the authors explain ecodesign concepts, including the importance of preserving and restoring natural systems while also adapting to climate change; minimizing congestion on highways and at airports by making development more compact, and by making it easier to walk, cycle and take trains and mass transit; crafting and managing regulations to insure better placemaking and fulfill consumer preferences, while incentivizing preferred practices; creating an inviting and environmentally responsible public realm from parks to streets to forgotten spaces; and finally how to implement these ecodesign concepts.

Contents:

1. Ecodesign: Changing the Urban Growth Model

2. Adapting to Climate Change and Limiting

3. Balancing Cars and Other Transportation

4. Making Cities More Livable and Environmentally Compatible

5. Designing and Managing the Public Realm

6. Implementing Ecodesign

Art Credits

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781610913423

1610913426

9781610914062

1610914066

OCLC:

910662471