Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs : txt
Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley.
- ix, 262 p. ill. ; 27 cm. book
Index.
Contents : Chapter 1 Ecodesign : Changing the Urban Growth Mode 1 -- Chapter 2 Adapting to Climate Changes and Limiting Global Warming 21 -- Chapter 3 Balancing Cars and Other Transportation 63 -- Chapter 4 Making Cites More Livable and Environmentally Compatible 93 -- Chapter 5 Designing and Making the Public Realm 149 -- Chapter 6 Implementing Ecodesign 209 -- Art Credit 243 -- Notes 249 -- Index 255 --
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 --
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Ecodesign Architecture Cities and towns Environmental sciences Ecology