Stephen J. Coyle 
Sustainable and Resilient Communities [EPUB ebook] 
A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions

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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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Table des matières

Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. The Built Environments and Supporting Systems.
Chapter 2. The Process of Transformation.
Chapter 3. The Physical Built Environment.
Chapter 4. The Regulatory Environment.
Chapter 5. Transportation.
Chapter 6. Energy.
Chapter 7. Water.
Chapter 8. Natural Environment.
Chapter 9. Food Production/Agriculture.
Chapter 10. Solid Waste.
Chapter 11. Economics.
Chapter 12. Engagement and Education.
Chapter 13. Public Health.
Appendix.
Endnotes.
Contributors.
Index.

A propos de l’auteur

STEPHEN COYLE, AIA, LEED AP, founder and principal of Town-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 Transit Village, Coyle developed sustainability plans for Hayward, Gilroy, Martinez, Napa, Pleasanton, and Tracy, California. With Bill Lennertz, Coyle helped to ‘green’ Portland and other Oregoncommunities through New Urbanist plans and form-based codes.
DANIEL DUNIGAN, AICP, LEED AP, closely collaborated with Steve 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.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780470918746 ● Taille du fichier 21.1 MB ● Maison d’édition John Wiley & Sons ● Publié 2011 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2326093 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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