Stephen J. Coyle

Sustainable and Resilient Communities (eBook, PDF)

A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470918722
• Artikelnr.: 37300528

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN COYLE, AIA, LEED AP, founder and principal ofTown-Green [www.town-green.com] based in Oakland, California, andcofounder of the National Charrette Institute[www.charretteinstitute.org] and Townworks/DPZ [www.townworks.org],is an architect, urbanist, and community planner. Coyle and hiscolleagues design and repair landscapes, buildings, neighborhoods,and cities throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. Asco-designer of the award-winning Contra Costa Centre TransitVillage, Coyle developed sustainability plans for Hayward, Gilroy,Martinez, Napa, Pleasanton, and Tracy, California. With BillLennertz, Coyle helped to "green" Portland and other Oregoncommunities through New Urbanist plans and form-based codes. DANIEL DUNIGAN, AICP, LEED AP, closely collaborated withSteve Coyle on the creation of this book. Dunigan, an urbandesigner with Town-Green, has a wide range of professionalexperience including climate action planning, public outreach andcharrette facilitation, urban design master planning, detailedarchitectural specification, and all phases of design/build projectmanagement.