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Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs by Jonathan Barnett, Larry Beasley (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs about?

1. Ecodesign: Changing the Urban Growth Model -- 2. Adapting to Climate Change and Limiting -- 3. Balancing Cars and Other Transportation -- 4. Making Cities More Livable and Environmentally Compatible -- 5. Designing and Managing the Public Realm -- 6. Implementing Ecodesign -- Art Credits -- Notes -- Index.;In six comprehensively illustrated chapters, the authors explain ecodesign concepts, including the importance of preserving and restoring natural systems while also adapting to climate change; minimizing congestion on highways and at airports by making development more compact, and by making it easier to walk, cycle and take trains and mass transit; crafting and managing regulations to insure better placemaking and fulfill consumer preferences, while incentivizing preferred practices; creating an inviting and environmentally responsible public realm from parks to streets to forgotten spaces; and finally how to implement these ecodesign concepts.

Who reads Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs?

Author

Jonathan Barnett, Larry Beasley (auth.)

Publisher

Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597265218

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Sociology, Nature