Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

• Main Author: Calthorpe, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Architecture.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Climate change.; Climate Change.; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Urbanism.; Urban Ecology.

“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 g...

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.