Green urbanism : learning from European cities / Timothy Beatley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beatley, Timothy, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Sustainable development.

Cities and towns--Europe.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 491 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the need to confront unplanned growth increases, planners, policymakers, and citizens are scrambling for practical tools and examples of successful and workable approaches. Growth management initiatives are underway in the U.S. at all levels, but many American' success stories' provide only one piece of the puzzle. To find examples of a holistic approach to dealing with sprawl, one must turn to models outside of the United States. In Green Urbanism, Timothy Beatley explains what planners and local officials in the United States can learn from the sustainable city movement in Europe. The book draws from the extensive European experience, examining the progress and policies of twenty-five of the most innovative cities in eleven European countries, which Beatley researched and observed in depth during a year-long stay in the Netherlands. Chapters examine: the sustainable cities movement in Europe examples and ideas of different housing and living options transit systems and policies for promoting transit use, increasing bicycle use, and minimizing the role of the automobile creative ways of incorporating greenness into cities ways of readjusting 'urban metabolism' so that waste flows become circular programs to promote more sustainable forms of economic development sustainable building and sustainable design measures and features renewable energy initiatives and local efforts to promote solar energy ways of greening the many decisions of local government including ecological budgeting, green accounting, and other city management tools. Throughout, Beatley focuses on the key lessons from these cities - including Vienna, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Zurich, Amsterdam, London, and Berlin - and what their experience can teach us about effectively and creatively promoting sustainable development in the United States. Green Urbanism is the first full-length book to describe urban sustainability in European cities, and provides concrete examples and detailed discussions of innovative and practical sustainable planning ideas. It will be a useful reference and source of ideas for urban and regional planners, state and local officials, policymakers, students of planning and geography, and anyone concerned with how cities can become more livable.

Contents:

Introduction : green urbanism and the lessons of European cities

Land use and urban form : planning compact cities

Creative housing and living environments

Transit cities : public transport innovations and priorities

Taming the auto : the promise of car-free cities

Bicycles : low-tech ecological mobility

Urban ecology and strategies for greening the urban environment

Urban ecocycle balancing : toward closed-loop cities

Renewable energy cities : living on solar income

Building ecologically : designing buildings and neighborhoods with nature in mind

Ecological governance in green-urban cities

Building a sustainable economy : innovations in restorative commerce

The promise of green urbanism : lessons from European cities.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-450) and index.

ISBN:

9781610910132

1610910133

9781597268813

159726881X

9781417543809

1417543809

OCLC:

300504920