TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnett,Jonathan
AU  - Larry Beasley
TI  - Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
SN  - 9781610913393
AV  - HT391 B352 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Washington
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Ecodesign
KW  - Local
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
KW  - Environmental sciences
KW  - Ecology
N1  - 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 --

N2  - 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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