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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Agile City
    sub title: Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
  name:
    name part: Russell, James S.
    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: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 292 p. 43 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Americans are waking up to the realization that global warming poses real challenges to the nation’s prosperity. In The Agile City, journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell engages the million dollar question: what do we do about it? The answer lies in changing our fundamental approach to growth. Improved building techniques can readily cut carbon emissions by half, and some can get to zero. These cuts can be affordably achieved in windshield-shattering desert heat and the bone-chilling cold of the north. Intelligently designing our towns, suburbs, and cities could reduce commutes and child chauffeuring to a few miles or eliminate it entirely. Who wouldn’t want a future like that? Agility, Russell explains, also means learning to adapt to the effects of climate change, which means redesigning the obsolete ways we finance real estate; distribute housing subsidies; provide transportation; and obtain, distribute, and dispose of water. These engines of growth have become increasingly dysfunctional both economically and environmentally. The Agile City highlights tactics that create multiplier effects. Ecologically driven change can stimulate economic opportunity, make more productive workplaces, and help revive neglected communities. Considering multiple effects and benefits of political choices and private investments is essential to assuring wealth and well-being. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level, with ingenuity and resourcefulness, makes the future look very green indeed.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Carbon-neutral Now -- Introduction: The Concrete Metropolis in a Dynamic Era -- Part 1: The Land. 1. Climate Change in the Landscapes of Speculation -- 2. A New Land Ethos. Part 2: Repairing The Dysfunctional Growth Machine. 3. Real Estate: Financing Agile Growth -- 4. Re-engineering Transportation -- 5. Ending the Water Wars -- 6. Megaburbs: The Unacknowledged Metropolis -- Part 3: Agile Urban Futures. 7. Building Adaptive Places -- 8. Creating Twenty-first-century Community -- 9. Loose-fit Urbanism -- 10. Green Grows the Future -- Epilogue: Tools to Build Civic Engagement.
  note: by James S. Russell.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Buildings
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban ecology (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Urbanism
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Building Types and Functions
  subject:
    topic: Urban Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  classification: QC902.8-903.2
  classification: 577.27
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      title: Springer eBooks
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