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Cambridge University Press Latin American Urbanization
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Cambridge University Press The Limits of Power
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Cambridge University Press City Walls
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Cambridge University Press Dont Call It Sprawl Metropolitan Structure in the 21st Century
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Cambridge University Press A History of European Housing in Australia
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Cambridge University Press The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Book SynopsisThis was the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers an account of two of the most important historical events since 1945 - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement.Trade Review"The Bulldozer in the Countryside is solid environmental history, telling a remarkably broad story of political economy, culture, and physical environments on a national scale...Rome writes gracefully, with a sense of drama that makes the book hard to put down." Journal of American History"Serving as an essential corrective to the belief that environmentalism has only lately come around to confronting the ecological consequences of urban land use, Adam Rome's The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism uncovers a largely forgotten history of political controversy surrounding the explosive growth of suburbia in the decades following World War II...The Bulldozer in the Countryside is important reading, which shows conclusively that the urban environmental agenda has a longer and deeper history than even its most fervent advocates may have realized." Urban Ecology"This book is a valuable resource for those interested in urban, growth management and environmental policy, especially those involved in dealing with the sprawl-related issues of today." Ecoscience"Too often, we forget that the history of environmentalism has as much to do with cities and suburbs - the places where most people now live - as it does with the rural or wild landscapes where many efforts to protect non-human nature have focused. In this important book, Adam Rome explores the complex processes by which rural areas were converted to suburban tract housing in the decades following World War II - transforming not just the American landscape, but American politics as well. It is a story with profound implications for the environmental challenges we now face." William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Rome's is an important tale, clearly told and well-argued...this is a significant contribution both to the history of suburban homebuilding and to the history of environmentalism. It is also worthy of consideration as a course text..." Technology and Culture"In this brilliant and original book, Adam Rome proposes both a new significance for postwar American suburbia and a new interpretation of postwar American environmentalism. Arguing that the uncontrolled spread of tracthouse suburbia was a driving force behind a new environmental consciousness,...Rome offers a profound insight into the development of an American land ethic." Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning University of Michigan, Ann Arbor"His book has the virtues and limits of good histories. It is smoothly written and thoroughly documented...a good solid story about an interesting phase in American history. Whether you lived through it or study it or both, you will learn much." American Journal of Sociology"Too often, we forget that the history of environmentalism has as much to do with cities and suburbs - the places where most people now live - as it does with the rural or wild landscapes where many efforts to protect non-human nature have focused. In this important book, Adam Rome explores the complex processes by which rural areas were converted to suburban tract housing in the decades following World War II - transforming not just the American landscape, but American politics as well. It is a story with profound implications for the environmental challenges we now face." William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Romes's book provides an excellent outline of the emerging postwar conflict over the surburban environment...deserves the attention of all planners and students of surburbia. He provides a fine account of a major story in American metropolitan development." APA Journal"Rome's book is insightful and informative...the book will be of interest both to scholars seeking to udnerstand the formation of modern environmentalism, and to concerned citizens seeking to place restraints on the continuing process of suburbanization." American Historical Review, Michael F. LoganTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Levitt's progress: the rise of the suburban-industrial complex; 2. From the solar house to the all-electric home: the postwar debates over heating and cooling; 3. Septic-tank suburbia: the problem of waste disposal at the metropolitan fringe; 4. Open space: the first protests against the bulldozed landscape; 5. Where not to build: the campaigns to protect wetlands, hillsides, and floodplains; 6. Water, soil, and wildlife: the federal critiques of tract-house development; 7. Toward a land ethic: the quiet revolution in land-use regulation; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Book SynopsisThis was the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers an account of two of the most important historical events since 1945 - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement.Trade Review"The Bulldozer in the Countryside is solid environmental history, telling a remarkably broad story of political economy, culture, and physical environments on a national scale...Rome writes gracefully, with a sense of drama that makes the book hard to put down." Journal of American History"Serving as an essential corrective to the belief that environmentalism has only lately come around to confronting the ecological consequences of urban land use, Adam Rome's The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism uncovers a largely forgotten history of political controversy surrounding the explosive growth of suburbia in the decades following World War II...The Bulldozer in the Countryside is important reading, which shows conclusively that the urban environmental agenda has a longer and deeper history than even its most fervent advocates may have realized." Urban Ecology"This book is a valuable resource for those interested in urban, growth management and environmental policy, especially those involved in dealing with the sprawl-related issues of today." Ecoscience"Too often, we forget that the history of environmentalism has as much to do with cities and suburbs - the places where most people now live - as it does with the rural or wild landscapes where many efforts to protect non-human nature have focused. In this important book, Adam Rome explores the complex processes by which rural areas were converted to suburban tract housing in the decades following World War II - transforming not just the American landscape, but American politics as well. It is a story with profound implications for the environmental challenges we now face." William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Rome's is an important tale, clearly told and well-argued...this is a significant contribution both to the history of suburban homebuilding and to the history of environmentalism. It is also worthy of consideration as a course text..." Technology and Culture"In this brilliant and original book, Adam Rome proposes both a new significance for postwar American suburbia and a new interpretation of postwar American environmentalism. Arguing that the uncontrolled spread of tracthouse suburbia was a driving force behind a new environmental consciousness,...Rome offers a profound insight into the development of an American land ethic." Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning University of Michigan, Ann Arbor"His book has the virtues and limits of good histories. It is smoothly written and thoroughly documented...a good solid story about an interesting phase in American history. Whether you lived through it or study it or both, you will learn much." American Journal of Sociology"Too often, we forget that the history of environmentalism has as much to do with cities and suburbs - the places where most people now live - as it does with the rural or wild landscapes where many efforts to protect non-human nature have focused. In this important book, Adam Rome explores the complex processes by which rural areas were converted to suburban tract housing in the decades following World War II - transforming not just the American landscape, but American politics as well. It is a story with profound implications for the environmental challenges we now face." William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Romes's book provides an excellent outline of the emerging postwar conflict over the surburban environment...deserves the attention of all planners and students of surburbia. He provides a fine account of a major story in American metropolitan development." APA Journal"Rome's book is insightful and informative...the book will be of interest both to scholars seeking to udnerstand the formation of modern environmentalism, and to concerned citizens seeking to place restraints on the continuing process of suburbanization." American Historical Review, Michael F. LoganTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Levitt's progress: the rise of the suburban-industrial complex; 2. From the solar house to the all-electric home: the postwar debates over heating and cooling; 3. Septic-tank suburbia: the problem of waste disposal at the metropolitan fringe; 4. Open space: the first protests against the bulldozed landscape; 5. Where not to build: the campaigns to protect wetlands, hillsides, and floodplains; 6. Water, soil, and wildlife: the federal critiques of tract-house development; 7. Toward a land ethic: the quiet revolution in land-use regulation; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Dont Call It Sprawl
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Cambridge University Press Radical Adaptation
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Cambridge University Press Reimagining Urban Planning in Africa
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Cambridge University Press Means Motives and Opportunities
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Cambridge University Press Means Motives and Opportunities
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Cambridge University Press Smugglers Speculators and the City in the EthiopiaSomalia Borderlands
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Cambridge University Press The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning
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Cambridge University Press Urban Climates
Book SynopsisUrban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It explains the physical principles governing the creation of distinct urban climates, such as airflow around buildings, the heat island, precipitation modification and air pollution, and it then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of urban development and help create more sustainable and resilient cities. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged field, this timely book fulfills the need to bring together the disparate parts of climate research on cities into a coherent framework. It is an ideal resource for students and researchers in fields such as climatology, urban hydrology, air quality, environmental engineering and urban design.Trade Review'This is a very important book for anyone interested in understanding the climates of cities - their characteristics, controls, causes and implications. Comprehensive, clearly written, richly illustrated, and with broad ranging examples and well documented sources of data, this is a book that should be read by researchers, students and practitioners interested in the urban environment, urban planning and design, and smart cities. Its presentation makes it accessible, valuable and insightful, to those new to the field as well as established experts. This book will be a classic reference that will stand up to being read many times.' Sue Grimmond, University of Reading'As an architect and urban planner, I find this scientific text by Oke et al. to be comprehensive, insightful and useful for my next project. It makes my job designing healthy and resilient cities much easier. It is a must for those who care about the future of our cities.' Edward Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong'Because the proportion of the world's population living in urban areas is expected to approach 65-70% by 2050, it is urgent and timely to gain a comprehensive understanding of '… physical mechanisms underlying the workings of urban atmospheres… (Preface)'. The four authors, all world renowned physical geographers and urban climatologists, have created the ultimate book on urban climate for gaining this understanding, meant primarily for upper undergraduate and beginning graduate levels and for those in other related fields, such as urban hydrology, air quality, environmental engineering, and urban design. The authors suggest that the book represents '… the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates …'. Of this there is no doubt, and thus it is a book of monumental importance for researchers, educators, and students of urban climate science and urban environments.' Anthony J. Brazel, Arizona State University'Monumental summary of urban climate, which could not be written by any other team of researchers than this, headed by the international face of the field for the last fifty years, Tim Oke. From its nineteenth-century beginnings, to latest research results, and then to its critical applications in weather forecasting, air quality, health, climate change, and planning, it will be indispensable for anyone interested in the subject, from students, researchers, and most importantly, planners.' Robert Bornstein, San Jose State University'This book is without peer in its field. Written by four of the most eminent scientists in urban climate, this excellent book is destined to become a classic and a fundamental reference for students, teachers and researchers alike.' Nigel Tapper, Monash University, Melbourne'A signature textbook has been lacking for some time now within the field of Urban Climate. We now have it. The content, quality and scope of Urban Climates are just what you would expect from some of the most respected urban climatologists in the world. I look forward to using it for my applied climatology in the urban environment class at the University of Georgia.' Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia and former President of the American Meteorological Society'Urban Climates is a must-read for students and scientists. From climatology to urban planning, it is very clear and complete, from concepts and processes to practical implementation and adaptation of cities to climate. It is illustrated with explicative diagrams of exceptional quality and many examples of this 'collection of microclimates' in various cities. Beyond the clear and rigorous overview of the physics of the urban atmosphere, Urban Climates offers a fantastic travel through the history of climate in cities around the world, from preindustrial cities and before to modern high-rise megacities.' Valéry Masson, Météo-France and Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Concepts; 3. Methods; 4. Airflow; 5. Radiation; 6. Energy balance; 7. Urban heat island; 8. Water; 9. Atmospheric moisture; 10. Clouds and precipitation; 11. Air pollution; 12. Geographical controls; 13. Cities and global climate change; 14. Climates of humans; 15. Climate-sensitive design; Epilogue; Appendix 1. History of urban climatology; Appendix 2. Site codes and data sources; Appendix 3. Glossary and acronyms; References; Subject index; Geographical Index.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Works
Book SynopsisA fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city“It''s a rare person who won''t find something of interest in The Works, whether it''s an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or the view of what''s down a manhole.” —New York Post Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes and behind the scenes to explain exactly how an urban infrastructure operates. Deftly weaving text and graphics, author Kate Ascher explores the systems that manage water, traffic, sewage and garbage, subways, electricity, mail, and much more. Full of fascinating facts and anecdotes, The Works gives readers a unique glimpse at what lies behind an
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The University of Chicago Press Making the Mission Planning and Ethnicity in San
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a place where residents have, over the last century, organized and reorganized themselves to make the neighborhood in their own image. In Making the Mission, Ocean Howell tells the story of how residents of the Mission District organized to claim the right to plan their own neighborhood and how they mobilized a politics of place and ethnicity to create a strong, often racialized identity-a pattern that would repeat itself again and again throughout the twentieth century. Surveying the perspectives of formal and informal groups, city officials and district residents, local and federal agencies, Howell articulates how these actors worked with and against one another to establish the very ideas of t
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The University of Chicago Press Planning Matter Acting with Things
Book SynopsisCity and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they're immersed. Too often planners treat built forms, weather patterns, plants, animals, or regulatory technologies as passively awaiting commands rather than actively involved in the workings of cities and regions. In the ambitious and provocative Planning Matter, Robert A. Beauregard sets out to offer a new materialist perspective on planning practice that reveals the many ways in which the nonhuman things of the world mediate what planners say and do. Drawing on actor-network theory and science and technology studies, Beauregard lays out a framework that acknowledges the inevitable insufficiency of our representations of reality while also engaging more holistically with the world in all of its diversity-including human and nonhuman actors
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MIT Press Ltd Urban Computing Information Systems
Book SynopsisAn authoritative treatment of urban computing, offering an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.Urban computing brings powerful computational techniques to bear on such urban challenges as pollution, energy consumption, and traffic congestion. Using today''s large-scale computing infrastructure and data gathered from sensing technologies, urban computing combines computer science with urban planning, transportation, environmental science, sociology, and other areas of urban studies, tackling specific problems with concrete methodologies in a data-centric computing framework. This authoritative treatment of urban computing offers an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.Each chapter acts as a tutorial that introduces readers to an important aspect of urban computing, with references to relevant research. The book outlines key concepts, sources of data, and typical applicat
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MIT Press Ltd Dream City Creation Destruction and Reinvention
Book SynopsisTracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit.Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and restaurant-goers. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking balls seen there only a few years ago. But venture a few blocks in any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris. In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. Kickert demonstrates the materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original morphological maps that trace downtown's rise, fall, and rebirth.Kickert writes that downtown Detroit has always been different from o
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University of Washington Press Seismic City
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dyl’s analysis reveals the ways in which cultural, political, and economic pressures influence the nature of the built environment, even in the context of environmental hazards. . . . These narratives of survival and resistance complicate tidy Progressive-era stories of urban reform and revitalization, revealing heterogeneous experiences of disaster and remaking within the city. . . . Dyl’s work enlivens historical actors typically removed from narratives of this urban revitalization [and] asks provocative questions about how we retell narratives of past disasters, account for natural processes in our present lives, and plan for our futures in these sites." -- Shari Wilcox * Edge Effects *"Seismic City is a landmark in the relatively new field of disaster studies...It makes for a gripping read." * California History *"Seismic City offers an important contribution to the history of San Francisco by interweaving nature, human actions, and the built environment." * H-Environment *"The strength of Dyl’s work stems from her consideration of natural disasters as something very different from exceptional or singular occurrences." * Planning Perspectives *"environmental history delivers a unique portrait of the 1906 disaster." * Pacific Historical Review *"Seismic City is a superb environmental history of most well-known disasters of a popular western city." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making Land, Making a City 2. Catastrophe and Its Interpretations 3. Bread Lines and Earthquake Cottages 4. Rebuilding and the Politics of Place 5. Disaster Capitalism in the Streets 6. Plague, Rats, and Undesirable Nature 7. Symbolic Recovery and the Legacies of Disaster Conclusion Notes Manuscript Collections Index
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University of Washington Press The Carbon Efficient City
Book SynopsisFocuses on concrete, achievable measures that can be implemented in a market economy giving it broad appeal to professionals and engaged citizens across the political spectrumTrade Review". . . a systematic approach that can make a difference. . . in areas like building construction, land use, transportation, electricity generation and how consumers can choose value while at the same time playing a role in a carbon efficient economy." -- Robert E. Hoopes * Wildlife Book Reviews *"Modestly named, it's nothing less than a 'best practices' manual for achieving carbon neutrality . . . framing the challenge culturally and legally, and using available technologies and political strategies to meet it. . . . Words to live by as we look forward." -- Clair Enlow * Daily Journal of Commerce *Table of ContentsForeword by Denis Hayes Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Measure for Measure 2. The Invisible Hand 3. Regulatory Roadblocks 4. Reduce 5. Built to Last 6. Great Neighborhoods 7. Spaces for Nature 8. On-Site Life Cycles 9. Regional Transportation 10. Delight 11. Making a Dent Notes Bibliography Index
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Random House USA Inc Urban Jungle
Book SynopsisIn this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior Illuminating...Wilson leaves readers with hope about the future of efforts to preserve the ecosystems that surround us, as well as a new perspective that looks beyond the concrete and asphalt when walking along a city’s streets.—Associated PressSince the beginning of civilization, humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks. In Urban Jungle Ben Wilson—the author of Metropolis, a seven-thousand-year history of cities that the Wall Street Journal called “a towering achievement”—looks to the fraught relationship between nature and the city for clues to how the planet can survive in an age of climate crisis.Whether it was the market farmers of Paris, Germans in med
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Water Centric Sustainable Communities
Book SynopsisThe current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainableconnection tothe environment and the hydrological cycle. Through case studies of successfully planned and built systems around the world, the book will educate the reader about the need for a new approach to urban water management, and make the case that these changes are not only possible but imperative.Table of ContentsPREFACE xii I HISTORIC PARADIGMS OF URBAN WATERSTORMWATER WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT AND DRIVERS FOR CHANGE 1 I.1 Introduction 1 I.2 Historic Paradigms: From Ancient Cities to the 20th Century 5 I.2.1 First Paradigm 8 I.2.2 Second Paradigm 9 I.2.3 Third Paradigm 15 I.2.4 Fourth Paradigm 25 I.2.5 The Impact of Automobile Use 32 I.2.6 Urban Sprawl 38 I.2.7 The Rise of New Great Powers Competing for Resources 40 I.3 Drivers for Change towards Sustainability 42 I.3.1 Population Increases and Pressures 44 I.3.2 Water Scarcity Problems and Flooding Challenges of Large Cities 49 I.3.3 Greenhouse Emissions and Global Warming Effects 51 I.3.4 Aging Infrastructure and the Need to Rebuild and Retrofit 59 I.3.5 The Impossibility of Maintaining the Status Quo and Business as Usual 60 I.4 The 21st Century and Beyond 65 References 68 II URBAN SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS 72 II.1 The Vision of Sustainability 72 II.2 The Sustainability Concept and Definitions 73 II.2.1 A New (Fifth) Paradigm Is Needed 73 II.2.2 Definition of Pollution 76 II.2.3 Sustainability Definitions 80 II.2.4 Economic versus Resources Preservation Sustainability 82 II.2.5 Sustainability Components 85 II.2.6 The Environment and Ecology 87 II.2.7 Living within the Limits in the Urban Landscape 90 II.2.8 The Economy 94 II.3 Towards the Fifth Paradigm of Sustainability 97 II.3.1 Emerging Sustainable Urban Water Stormwater Used Water Systems 99 II.3.2 Triple Bottom Line—Life Cycle Assessment (TBL—LCA) 104 II.3.3 Water Reclamation and Reuse 106 II.3.4 Restoring Urban Streams 108 II.3.5 Stormwater Pollution and Flood Abatement 110 II.3.6 Urban Landscape 113 II.4 Cities of the Future—Water Centric Ecocities 114 II.4.1 Drainage and Water Management 114 II.4.2 Microscale Measures and Macroscale Watershed Goals 116 II.4.3 Integrated Resource Management Clusters—Ecoblocks of the Cities of the Future 120 II.4.4 Interconnectivity of Clusters—Spatial Integration 123 II.5 Ecocity Ecovillage Concepts 124 References 129 III PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT CITIES: THEORIES, STRATEGIES, AND BEST PRACTICES FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 135 III.1 Introduction 135 III.1.1 Achieving Sustainability 135 III.1.2 Sustainability through Urban Planning and Design 137 III.2 Ecosystem Services 138 III.2.1 Concepts 138 III.2.2 The Non-Equilibrium Paradigm 141 III.3 Planning for Resilient and Sustainable Cities 143 III.3.1 Ecosystem Service Goals and Assessments 143 III.3.2 Resilience Strategies 144 III.3.3 Scenario Planning 155 III.3.4 Transdisciplinary Process 157 III.3.5 Adaptive Planning 157 III.4 Best Practices for Green Infrastructure 158 III.4.1 SEA Street Seattle 159 III.4.2 Westergasfabriek Park, Amsterdam 162 III.4.3 Staten Island Blue Belt, New York 162 III.4.4 Ecostaden (Ecocities): Augustenborg Neighborhood and Western Harbor, Malm¨o, Sweden 164 III.5 Discussion 170 References 171 IV STORMWATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT AND FLOOD CONTROL—STORMWATER AS A RESOURCE 177 IV.1 Urban Stormwater—A Problem or an Asset? 177 IV.1.1 Problems with Urban Stormwater 177 IV.1.2 Current Urban Drainage 182 IV.1.3 Urban Stormwater Is an Asset and a Resource 184 IV.1.4 Low Impact Development (LID) 186 IV.2 Best Management Practices to Control Urban Runoff for Reuse 189 IV.2.1 Soft Surface Approaches 190 IV.2.2 Ponds and Wetlands 201 IV.2.3 Winter Limitations on Stormwater Management and Use 212 IV.2.4 Hard Infrastructure 216 IV.2.5 ID Urban Drainage—A Step to the Cities of the Future 218 References 222 V WATER DEMAND AND CONSERVATION 228 V.1 Water Use 228 V.1.1 Water on Earth 228 V.1.2 Water Use Fundamentals 232 V.1.3 Municipal Water Use in the U.S. and Worldwide 235 V.1.4 Components of Municipal Water Use 239 V.1.5 Virtual Water 240 V.2 Water Conservation 241 V.2.1 Definition of Water Conservation 241 V.2.2 Residential Water Use 241 V.2.3 Commercial and Public Water Use and Conservation 249 V.2.4 Leaks and Other Losses 251 V.3 Substitute and Supplemental Water Sources 252 V.3.1 Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) 252 V.3.2 Gray Water Reclamation and Reuse as a Source of New Water 256 V.3.3 Desalination of Seawater and Brackish Water 260 V.3.4 Urban Stormwater and Other Freshwater Flows as Sources of Water 266 References 268 VI WATER RECLAMATION AND REUSE 272 VI.1 Introduction 272 VI.2 Water Reclamation and Reuse 274 VI.2.1 The Concept 274 VI.2.2 Reclaiming Rainwater and Stormwater 279 VI.2.3 Water-Sewage-Water Cycle—Unintended Reuse 280 VI.2.4 Centralized versus Decentralized Reclamation 281 VI.2.5 Cluster Water Reclamation Units 282 VI.3 Water Quality Goals and Limits for Selecting Technologies 286 VI.3.1 Concepts 286 VI.3.2 Landscape and Agricultural Irrigation 289 VI.3.3 Urban Uses Other Than Irrigation and Potable Water Supply 293 VI.3.4 Potable Reuse 297 VI.3.5 Groundwater Recharge 300 VI.3.6 Integrated Reclamation and Reuse—Singapore 304 References 308 VII TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY UNIT PROCESSES 311 VII.1 Brief Description of Traditional Water and Resource Reclamation Technologies 311 VII.1.1 Basic Requirements 311 VII.1.2 Considering Source Separation 312 VII.1.3 Low-Energy Secondary Treatment 315 VII.1.4 New Developments in Biological Treatment 324 VII.2 Sludge Handling and Resource Recovery 329 VII.2.1 Types of Solids Produced in the Water Reclamation Process 331 VII.2.2 A New Look at Residual Solids (Sludge) as a Resource 334 VII.3 Nutrient Recovery 336 VII.4 Membrane Filtration and Reverse Osmosis 339 VII.5 Disinfection 340 VII.6 Energy and GHG Emission Issues in Water Reclamation Plants 346 VII.7 Evaluation and Selection of Decentralized Water Reclamation Technologies 348 VII.7.1 Closed Cycle Water Reclamation 348 References 354 VIII ENERGY AND URBAN WATER SYSTEMS—TOWARDS NET ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT 358 VIII.1 Interconnection of Water and Energy 358 VIII.1.1 Use of Water and Disposal of Used Water Require Energy and Emit GHGs 358 VIII.1.2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Areas 360 VIII.1.3 The Water-Energy Nexus on the Regional and Cluster Scale 362 VIII.1.4 Net Zero Carbon Footprint Goal for High-Performance Buildings and Developments 365 VIII.2 Energy Conservation in Buildings and Ecoblocks 71 VIII.2.1 Energy Considerations Related to Water 371 VIII.2.2 Heat Recovery from Used Water 379 VIII.3 Energy from Renewable Sources 380 VIII.3.1 Solar Energy 380 VIII.3.2 Wind Power 387 VIII.4 Energy from Used Water and Waste Organic Solids 392 VIII.4.1 Fundamentals 392 VIII.4.2 Biogas Production, Composition, and Energy Content 394 VIII.4.3 Small and Medium Biogas Production Operations 397 VIII.4.4 Anaerobic Upflow Reactor 398 VIII.5 Direct Electric Energy Production from Biogas and Used Water 399 VIII.5.1 Hydrogen Fuel Cells 400 VIII.5.2 Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) 403 VIII.5.3 Harnessing the Hydraulic Energy of Water Used Water Systems 406 VIII.6 Summary and a Look into the Future 408 VIII.6.1 A New Look at the Used Water Reclamation Processes 408 VIII.6.2 Integrated Resource Recovery Facilities 411 VIII.7 Overall Energy Outlook—Anticipating the Future 416 VIII.7.1 A Look into the Future 20 or More Years Ahead 416 VIII.7.2 Is Storage a Problem? 421 References 422 IX RESTORING URBAN STREAMS 427 IX.1 Introduction 427 IX.1.1 Rediscovering Urban Streams 427 IX.1.2 Definitions 437 IX.2 Adverse Impacts of Urbanization to Be Remedied 438 IX.2.1 Types of Pollution 438 IX.2.2 Determining Main Impact Stressors to Be Fixed by Restoration 443 IX.2.3 Effluent Dominated and Effluent Dependent Urban Water Bodies 447 IX.3 Water Body Restoration in the Context of Future Water Centric (Eco) Cities 453 IX.3.1 Goals 453 IX.3.2 Regionalized versus Cluster-Based Distributed Systems 455 IX.3.3 New Developments and Retrofitting Older Cities 457 IX.4 Summary and Conclusions 476 References 479 X PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE FUTURE COMMUNITIES 482 X.1 Integrated Planning and Management 482 X.1.1 Introduction 482 X.1.2 Footprints 484 X.2 Urban Planning 487 X.2.1 Ecocity Parameters and Demographics—Population Density Matters 488 X.3 Integrated Resources Management (IRM) 493 X.3.1 Sustainability 493 X.4 Clusters and Ecoblocks—Distributed Systems 497 X.4.1 The Need to Decentralize Urban WaterStormwaterUsed Water Management 497 X.4.2 Distribution of Resource Recovery, Reclamation and Management Tasks 499 X.4.3 Cluster Creation and Size 503 X.4.4 Types of WaterEnergy Reclamations and Creation of a Sustainable Urban Area 505 X.5 System Analysis and Modeling of Sustainable Cities 514 X.5.1 Complexity of the System and Modeling 514 X.5.2 Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Assessment 518 X.6 Institutions 525 X.6.1 Institutions for Integrated Resource Management 526 X.6.2 Enhanced Private Sector 532 X.6.3 Achieving Multibenefit System Objectives 533 References 535 XI ECOCITIES: EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS 539 XI.1 Introduction 539 XI.2 Case Studies 542 XI.2.1 Hammarby Sjöstad, Sweden 542 XI.2.2 Dongtan, China 549 XI.2.3 Qingdao (China) Ecoblock and Ecocity 556 XI.2.4 Tianjin (China) 560 XI.2.5 Masdar (UAE) 566 XI.2.6 Treasure Island (California, U.S.) 573 XI.2.7 Sonoma Mountain Village (California, U.S.) 579 XI.2.8 Dockside Green 585 XI.3 Brief Summary 588 References 590 APPENDIX 595 INDEX 597
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Penguin Putnam Inc Golden Gates The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning
Book SynopsisA Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice“Tells the story of housing in all its compl
£16.15
State University of New York Press Electoral Politics Is Not Enough Racial And
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Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Unbound A Strategy for Regional Renewal
Book SynopsisPublished by the Abell Foundation.Trade ReviewWhen David Rusk speaks, people listen. He is the hottest urban expert in the nation today. -- Theo Lippman, Jr. Baltimore Sun "Once again, the noted urban scholar and former Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, David Rusk, has written a diagnostic book on the disparities in the relationships between cities and their suburban counterparts... Baltimore Unbound should be required reading for all state and local officials and essential reading for representatives of the civic community. -- Shirley R. Byron Journal of the American Planning AssociationTable of ContentsForewordAuthor's PrefaceExecutive SummaryIntroductionChapter 1. The NecessityChapter 2. The AlternativesChapter 3. The StrategyConclusion
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Johns Hopkins University Press Building Gotham Civic Culture and Public Policy
Book SynopsisBuilding Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city.Trade ReviewAbsolutely essential reading for anyone trying to appreciate the achievements of Progressive reform-and its inadvertent consequences... A richly insightful book that will be read by anyone concerned about New York, public life, and the present state of American liberalism. -- Joel Schwartz Journal of American History An enjoyable, highly readable, and very detailed account... An excellent text for students and researchers to better understand the often unique and always complex set of issues and actors that initiated, implemented, or thwarted urban planning efforts in New York City. -- Susan Turner Meiklejohn Journal of Planning Education and Research Building Gotham documents with an insightful and unbiased eye the roles played by businesses and government in erecting the modern city's buildings, tunnels, sewers, transportation system, and the like. -- Harry Siegel New York Sun 2003 This well informed book... examines the origins of the various forms of planning New York City... [A] very exciting technical account... thorough and interesting. -- Peter Eley Urban Design Quarterly 2004 Revell, a professor of public administration, pays particular attention to the army of experts-from engineers and architects to lawyers and financiers-who solved the enormous problems that initially had the 'ambitious experiment in collective living' teetering on the brink of disaster... the message distilled by Revell from his study of bygone New York-that 'outdated notions of individualism and local autonomy' can be detrimental to solving shared problems-is sure to strike a responsive chord. Civil Engineering 2003 Deeply researched, clearly written and argued... required reading for scholars of early twentieth-century New York City. -- Angela M. Blake Urban History 2005Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Conceiving the New Metropolis: Expertise, Public Policy, and the Problem of Civis Culture in New York CityPART 1: Private Infrastructure and Public Policy 1 "The Public Be Pleased": Railroad Planning, Engineering Culture, and the Promise of Quasi-scientific Voluntarism 2 Beyond Voluntarism: The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Railroads, and Freight Planning for New York Harbor PART 2: Public Infrastructure, Local Autonomy, and Private Wealth3 Buccaneer Bureaucrats, Physical Interdependence, and Free Riders: Building the Underground City 4 Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing: Expanding Public Claims on Private Wealth PART 3: Urban Planning, Private Rights, and Public Power 5 City Planning versus the Law: Zoning the New Metropolis 6 "They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair": Regional Planning and the Metropolitan DilemmaConclusion: "An almost mystical unity": Interdependence and the Public Interest in the Modern Metropolis Appendix Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Bringing Buildings Back
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John Wiley & Sons In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills Latino
Book SynopsisIn Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley, and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. Trade Review"By uncovering the hidden story of how Mexican Americans came to dominate the East Los Angeles suburbs, González not only offers much-needed insight into the postwar Mexican American experience, but also bridges Chicana/o and suburban history in critical and heretofore unexplored ways." -- Monica Perales * author of Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community *"González has produced a definitive work on the Mexican American suburban experience, full of nuance and surprises, and demanding a deep rethinking of the meaning of the American suburban dream." -- Becky Nicolaides * author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 *"Documents how Mexican-Americans came to be the majority population in the suburban San Gabriel Valley." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"New Books Network" podcast interview with Jerry Gonzalez * New Books Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. The Lands of Mañana 14 2. Mexican Americans and the Suburban Ideal 46 3. El MAPA to the Suburban Ideal 75 4. Suburban Renewal 103 Epilogue: Let’s Take a Trip . . . 131 Acknowledgments 139 Notes 145 Index 193
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Trillium Boomtown Columbus Ohios Sunbelt City and How
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Conversations about Energy How the Experts See
Book SynopsisDrawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this discusses critical energy issues, including energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics.Table of Contents Preface Introduction by George P. Shultz Recommendations Sessions 1 Distributed Energy 2 What Can We Do To Boost Energy Efficiency? 3 The Nuclear Fuel Cycle 4 Synthetic Biology and Its Applications in Energy 5 Putting a Price on Carbon 6 A Sustained Research and Development Policy 7 Emerging International Energy Relationships Appendix 1 Working with China and India What Can America Do with China? by David Victor The U.S.-India Climate and Energy Relationship: Dealing with a Power-Starved Country by Jeremy Carl Appendix 2 Members of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy Appendix 3 Conference Agenda Conference Participants
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Urban Land Institute,U.S. Creating Great Town Centers and Urban Villages
Book SynopsisPacked with colour photographs, site plans, and case studies of both new projects and classics that have stood the test of time, this book reveals the inside story of how they were developed and what makes them special, offering vital facts about costs, rents, land uses, and more.
£89.10
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Resort Development ULI Development Handbook
Book SynopsisPacked with photos and site plans, this practical how-to-guide for developing resorts—such as hotels, timeshares, and second-home, retirement, and planned communities—provides an inside look at the challenges faced and lessons learned by actual practitioners in the industry.
£100.80
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Changing Metropolitan America Planning for a
Book SynopsisProviding expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing, this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life and makes recommendations for reducing sprawl and dependence on cars, encouraging sustainability, investing in infrastructure, and addressing other issues such as workforce housing availability, shopping, and leadership in land use.
£35.10
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Getting Real on Urbanism
Book SynopsisFighting the trend to design cookie-cutter urban communities, this resource looks at city planning and design in a multi-dimensional way—paying attention to the history and environment of a particular area in order to create places with identifiable character and personality.
£63.00
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Housing Americas Workforce Case Studies Lessons
Book SynopsisSecuring high-quality, affordable housing near the workplace poses a complex challenge for communities across urban America. This offers the best practices to advocate for the development of mixed-income communities close to employment centres and transportation.Trade Review"Tackles an issue facing many jurisdictions and offers valuable case studies. Insights from industry leaders were particularly enlightening." --National Association of Real Estate Editors, Bruss Award judges
£33.20
Urban Land Institute,U.S. INTERSECTIONS Health and the Built Environment
Book SynopsisBased on worldwide public health data, this report lays out the premise for building healthy places and illuminates the role of the real estate and development community in addressing public health issues. This is an essential resource for public officials, real estate developers, engineers, consultants, and students of urban planning.
£23.70
Urban Land Institute,U.S. TEN PRINCIPLES FOR HEALTHY COM
Book SynopsisIncludes up-to-the-minute thinking on how to design and build healthy communities. It serves as a tool for public officials, development professionals, and others to help lay out the key elements that make a community more conducive to activity and that encourage better eating and healthier living.
£23.70
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Visionaries in Urban Development 15 Years of the
Book SynopsisIn recognition of the 15th anniversary of the ULI J. C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, this book profiles the 15 remarkable prize recipients from 2000 to 2014. For each laureate, the book includes a biography showcasing the winner's commitment to improving the urban environment. Each is illustrated with colour photos of the works and activities of the winner.
£57.00
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Building Healthy Places Toolkit Strategies for
Book SynopsisOutlines evidence-supported opportunities to enhance health through changes in approaches to buildings and projects. Developers, owners, property managers, designers, investors, and others involved in real estate decision making can use the strategies described in this report to create places that contribute to healthier people and communities, and enhance and preserve value.
£37.95
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Urban Real Estate Investment A New Era of
Book SynopsisThe basic forces that drive societal change—from demographic shifts, to advances in technology, and transitions in economic functions—have influenced the shape of cities throughout history. This book explains America's urban renaissance and establishes a framework to understand and capitalize on the range of real estate opportunities available in cities across the country.
£55.79
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Gen Y and Housing What They Want and Where They
Book SynopsisGeneration Y - sometimes called Millennials - is an intriguing combination of optimistic and realistic: virtually all of them expect to eventually own a home, yet they do not necessarily consider housing an investment. This publication reports on Gen Y's housing preferences and needs, providing valuable insights for those who need to understand this generation's expectations for housing and community.
£12.95
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Transformative Urban Open Space The ULI Urban
Book SynopsisRichly illustrated, this publication highlights recent award winners and finalists of the ULI Urban Open Space Award, includes articles framing the debate on the value of these spaces, and offers a general overview of the award's history since its inception in 2010.
£14.95
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Shared Parking Third Edition
Book SynopsisAvoid unnecessary costs and traffic by accurately estimating the parking requirements for mixed-use projects according to the types of tenants they will attract. Now in its third edition, this authoritative book has been updated throughout by author Mary Smith, a leading parking expert, in collaboration with parking professionals and developers.
£139.50
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Developing Active Adult Retirement Communities
Book SynopsisAuthored by seasoned professionals, this book explains the various types of projects, covers the all-important lifestyle concept that motivates sales, and provides state-of-the-art best practices in development, including planning and design, marketing tools and strategies, and the legal framework.
£83.70
Urban Land Institute Developing Successful Infill Housing
Book SynopsisLearn how to develop profitable, market-rate infill housing in urban and inner-ring suburban areas. This new book explains how to find and take advantage of opportunities and overcome obstacles. Each stage of the development process is covered, from assessing the market to addressing community concerns and marketing.
£67.50
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Halfway to Everywhere A Portrait of Americas
Book SynopsisDrawing from his experience as mayor, Bill Hudnut describes the plight of first-tier suburbs and reveals how they have been left behind as the spotlight has focused on downtown revitalisation and growth in outlying areas. Learn how these areas are turning around and becoming vibrant attractive areas in which to live, work, and play.Trade ReviewA must-see manual to improve one of America's hidden treasures, the inner suburb. --John Norquist, mayor, Milwaukee, WisconsinA must-see manual to improve one of America's hidden treasures, the inner suburb. --John Norquist, mayor, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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