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  title info:
    title: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
  name:
    name part: Calthorpe, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 166 p. online resource.
  abstract: “Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but other critical economies and lifestyle benefits. Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts. In so doing he powerfully demonstrates that it will take an integrated approach of land use transformation, policy changes, and innovative technology to transition to a low carbon economy. To accomplish this Calthorpe synthesizes thirty years of experience, starting with his ground breaking work in sustainable community design in the 1980s following through to his current leadership in transit-oriented design, regional planning, and land use policy. Peter Calthorpe shows us what is possible using real world examples of innovative design strategies and forward-thinking policies that are already changing the way we live. This provocative and engaging work emerges from Calthorpe’s belief that, just as the last fifty years produced massive changes in our culture, economy and environment, the next fifty will generate changes of an even more profound nature. The book, enhanced by its superb four-color graphics, is a call to action and a road map for moving forward.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Urbanism and Climate Change -- 2. The Fifty-year Experiment -- 3. Toward a Green Urban Future -- 4. Design for Urbanism -- 5. The Urban Footprint -- 6. The Urban Network -- 7. The California Experiment -- 8. Four American Futures -- 9. A Sustainable Future -- Notes -- Index.
  note: by Peter Calthorpe.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban ecology (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Cities, Countries, Regions
  subject:
    topic: Urbanism
  subject:
    topic: Urban Ecology
  classification: QC902.8-903.2
  classification: 577.27
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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