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Toward Sustainable Communities
Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition
The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of …
related subjects: Urban Issues
Dry Run
Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis
In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industrial, urban and environmental reasons stirring up …
related subjects: Urban Issues , Environment & Economy
The Carbon Charter
Blueprint for a Carbon-Free Future
As mayors and city councilors seek solutions to climate change, existing policies and legislation can stand in the way of effective change.
The Carbon Charter is the first book to describe the municipal bylaws required to abate climate change and …
related subjects: Urban Issues
Integral City
Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive
Cities function unintelligently when their parts are disconnected. The integral city meshes or multiplies city intelligences by integrating capacities, functions and locations into a whole system, like a human hive. Everything counts.
An integral …
related subjects: Urban Issues
Five Ring Circus
Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games
The shiny rings of the Olympic Games have grown tarnished over the years as doping, corruption and other scandals rise to the surface. Those scandals are the tip of the iceberg, according to author Christopher Shaw, the lead spokesperson for several …
related subjects: Environment & Economy , Urban Issues
Home! A Bioregional Reader
By providing tools to understand the land we liveon and the sources of its natural regeneration,the more than 40 contributors to Home! open upnew possibilities for the creation of cultures inkeeping with the requirements of the naturalworld. Home! …
related subjects: New Catalyst Books , Urban Issues
The Great Neighborhood Book
A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking
Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and comfortable seating? What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering …
related subjects: Community Building , Urban Issues
Better NOT Bigger
How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve your Community
Contrary to accepted wisdom, rapid urban growth can leave communities permanently scarred, deeply in debt, with unaffordable housing, a lost sense of community, and sacrificed environmental quality.
In Better NOT Bigger, Fodor explodes the …
related subjects: Urban Issues , New Catalyst Books
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