02943nam a22004217a 4500 pucpr 20241107111214.0 140613s2014 dcua i 001 0 eng 2013039889 9781610911818 paper 9781597268059 hardback 1597268054 cloth pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda eng CARIBET HC110.C3 B76 2014 363.60973 23 Brown, Hillary. 205081 Next Generation Infrastructure : principles for post-industrial public works. / Hillary Brown. txt United States of America : Island Press , 2014. xv, 241p. ill. ; 27cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include index Contents : Foreword by David W, Orr xi -- Acknowledgments xv -- Chapter 1 Introduction : Bold Endeavors Needed 1 -- Chapter 2 Toward Infrastructural Ecologies : Interconnected, Multipurpose, and Synergistic Systems 17 -- Chapter 3 Greening Heat and Power : An Integrated Approach to Decarbonizing Energy 41 -- Chapter 4 Advancing Soft Path Water Infrastructure : Combined Constructed and Natural Systems 69 -- Chapter 5 Destigmatizing Infrastructure : Design of Community Friendly Facilities 97 -- Chapter 6 Creating Resilient Coastlines and Waterways : Hard and Soft Constructions 127 -- Chapter 7 Combating Water Stress and Scarcity : Augmented Sources and Improved Storage 149 -- Chapter 8 Ways Forward : Think Systematically, Experiment Locally 171 -- Notes 199 -- Index 233 -- How can our complex, interdependent utilities support an urbanizing world, subject to carbon constraints and the impacts of climate change ? How might these critical networks be made more efficient, less environmentally damaging, and more resilient ? Such questions are at the heart of the approaches and initiatives explored in Next Generation Infrastructure. Hillary Brown highlights hopeful examples and proposes five organizing objectives that, in the hands of decision makers and designers, will help bring about a future of multipurpose, low carbon infrastructure that is tightly coordinated with natural and social systems -- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. 196845 Local Urban geography 183421 Urbanism Infrastructure Economics Government policy United States. 114660 Local Pollution 152331 Infrastructure Economics 114660 Government policy United States Environmental sciences 92425 Civil engineering 73730 Infrastructure Economics Environmental aspects United States. 114660 Local 293958 United States lcc 6 General HC110.C3 B76 2014 244077 244077 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2014-05-27 Amazon 34.20 524437 0 General HC110.C3 B76 2014 91000000038356 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 44.20 2014-05-27 6