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Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs [electronic resource] / by Jonathan Barnett, Larry Beasley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015Description: VIII, 265 p. 132 illus. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610914062
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 720 23
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Ecodesign: Changing the Urban Growth Model -- 2. Adapting to Climate Change and Limiting -- 3. Balancing Cars and Other Transportation -- 4. Making Cities More Livable and Environmentally Compatible -- 5. Designing and Managing the Public Realm -- 6. Implementing Ecodesign -- Art Credits -- Notes -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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1. Ecodesign: Changing the Urban Growth Model -- 2. Adapting to Climate Change and Limiting -- 3. Balancing Cars and Other Transportation -- 4. Making Cities More Livable and Environmentally Compatible -- 5. Designing and Managing the Public Realm -- 6. Implementing Ecodesign -- Art Credits -- Notes -- Index.

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.