02118nam a2200337Ia 4500 pucpr 20260226103949.0 151023s2015 a fr 001 0 eng 9781610913393 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda eng CARIBET HT391 B352 2015 Barnett, Jonathan. 199685 1948- author. Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs : Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley. txt Washington : Island Press, 2015. ix, 262 p. ill. ; 27 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc 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 -- Ecodesign 219465 Local Architecture 54081 Local Cities and towns 73674 Growth Environmental sciences 92425 Ecology 89958 Larry Beasley 244566 lcc 6 HT391 General B352 2015 249382 249382 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2015-09-01 amazon 68.55 536651 0 General HT391 B352 2015 91000000047027 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 78.55 0000-00-00 6