Resilient Sustainable Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resilient Sustainable Cities write by Leonie Pearson. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Resilient Sustainable Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable Cities provides an integrated approach for long term future planning within the context of the city as a whole system. In the next 30 years cities will face their biggest challenges yet, as a result of long term, or ‘slow burn’ issues: population growth will stretch to the breaking point urban infrastructure and service capacity; resource scarcity, such as peak oil; potable water and food security, will dramatically change what we consume and how; environmental pressures will change how we live and where and; shifting demographic preferences will exacerbate urban pressures. Cities can’t keep doing what they’ve always done and cope – we need to change current urban development to achieve resilient, sustainable cities. Resilient Sustainable Cities provides practical and conceptual insights for practitioners, researchers and students on how to deliver cities which are resilient to ‘slow burn’ issues and achieve sustainability. The book is organized around three overarching themes: pathways to the future innovation to deliver the future leadership and governance issues The book includes a variety of perspectives conveyed through international case studies and examples of cities that have transformed for a sustainable future, exploring their successes and failures to ensure that readers are left with ideas on how to turn their city into a resilient sustainable city for the future.
Sustainable and Resilient Communities
Sustainable and Resilient Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable and Resilient Communities write by Stephen J. Coyle. This book was released on 2011-05-12. Sustainable and Resilient Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving, and economically resilient. Sustainable and Resilient Communitiesdelineates measures for repairing, retrofitting, and transforming our built environments and supporting systems.
Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design write by S.T.A. Pickett. This book was released on 2013-01-13. Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s population now residing in coastal urban zones, many of which are vulnerable both to floods originating inland and rising sea levels, making urban areas more robust in the face of environmental threats must be a policy ambition of the highest priority. The complexity of urban areas results from their spatial heterogeneity, their intertwined material and energy fluxes, and the integration of social and natural processes. All of these features can be altered by intentional planning and design. The complex, integrated suite of urban structures and processes together affect the adaptive resilience of urban systems, but also presupposes that planners can intervene in positive ways. As examples accumulate of linkage between sustainability and building/landscape design, such as the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park and Toronto’s Lower Don River area, this book unites the ideas, data, and insights of ecologists and related scientists with those of urban designers. It aims to integrate a formerly atomized dialog to help both disciplines promote urban resilience.
Resilient Planning and Design for Sustainable Cities
Resilient Planning and Design for Sustainable Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resilient Planning and Design for Sustainable Cities write by Francesco Alberti. This book was released on . Resilient Planning and Design for Sustainable Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Planning for Climate Change
Planning for Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planning for Climate Change write by Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield. This book was released on 2018-09-18. Planning for Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader’s particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments—what actions can be taken, as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region—providing better on-site stormwater management, more urban greening to address excess heat, zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors, and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities, bringing benefits now and into the future. This Reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together, encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions.
