Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
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 easi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | VIII, 265 p. 132 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781610914062 |