Keyword: urban planning

Toward Sustainable Communities
Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition
by Mark Roseland

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

The Urban Food Revolution
Changing the Way We Feed Cities
by Peter Ladner

Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion’s share of the …
related subjects: Food and Gardening

Urban Agriculture
Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution
by David Tracey

You don't have to journey to a rural paradise to find the farm of the future. It's your neighbor's suburban lawn, the roof of your uptown condominium, or the co-op market garden in the vacant lot down the street. Urban Agriculture is a detailed look …
related subjects: Food and Gardening

Choosing a Sustainable Future
Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY
by Liz Walker

We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming - one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice andcreativity. Ithaca is …
related subjects: Community Building

Creating Cohousing
Building Sustainable Communities
by Kathryn McCamant & Charles Durrett

A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes haveturned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of …
related subjects: Community Building

Dry Run
Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis
by Jerry Yudelson

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
by Godo Stoyke

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
by Marilyn Hamilton

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