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As world population grows, and more people move to cities and suburbs, they place greater stress on the operating system of our whole planet. But urbanization and increasing densities also present our best opportunity for improving sustainability, by transforming urban development into desirable, lower-carbon, compact and walkable communities and business centers.



Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley seek to demonstrate that a sustainable built and natural environment can be achieved through ecodesign, which integrates the practice of planning and urban design with environmental conservation, through normal business practices and the kinds of capital programs and regulations already in use in most communities. Ecodesign helps adapt the design of our built environment to both a changing climate and a rapidly growing world, creating more desirable places in the process.



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.



Throughout the book, the ecodesign framework is demonstrated by innovative practices that are already underway or have been accomplished in many cities and suburbs--from Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm to False Creek North in Vancouver to Battery Park City in Manhattan, as well as many smaller-scale examples that can be adopted in any community.



Ecodesign thinking is relevant to anyone who has a part in shaping or influencing the future of cities and suburbs - designers, public officials, and politicians.

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• Chapter 1 Ecodesign: Combining Sustainability with Creating Attractive Places
• Chapter 2 Adapting to Climate Change, Limiting Global Warming, Designing Sustainable Cities and Regions
• Chapter 3 Balancing Cars and Other Transportation
• Chapter 4 Regulations that Recognize the Natural Environment, Create Compact, Mixed Use Business Centers, and Shape Walkable Neighborhoods
• Chapter 5 Designing and Managing the Public Realm
• Chapter 6 Implementing Ecodesign
• Notes

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CHOICE Review

In this highly informative call to action, Barnett (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Canadian urban planner Beasley present a strong argument for change in the way planners develop cities and suburbs to respect the natural environment and human needs for a social life. The authors propose urban planning strategies to protect natural environments and encourage partnerships with government agencies, the development community, and local citizens to manage a harmonious relationship of the built urban fabric with natural systems. The authors embrace an ethical tenet that human settlements provide well-being for all, including natural environments. They present axioms to inform development projects and ways in which principles can be implemented, ways to tap new financing resources, and ways to use new forms of regulations. Multiple case studies illustrate the preservation of older areas in cities, with public input. Principles of new town planning examine increased density in city centers and mixed-use neighborhoods with walkable, open-space systems of parks, beaches, and pedestrian walkways. The book highlights innovative solutions for transforming industrial neighborhoods in US and international urban communities. High quality color images and maps illustrate density patterns, offering insight into future development for sustainable growth. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --S. Dorothea Scott-Fundling, Marymount University

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Jonathan Barnett is an emeritus Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning, and former director of the Urban Design Program, at the University of Pennsylvania. An architect and planner as well as an educator, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of city design. Along with PennDesign colleagues Gary Hack and Stefan Al, he teaches an on-line course, Designing Cities, available on Coursera.

Larry Beasley is the retired Co-chief Planner for the City of Vancouver. He is now the "Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning" at the University of British Columbia and the founding principal of Beasley and Associates, an international planning consultancy. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, his country's premier civilian honor for lifetime achievement.