The Agile City Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change /

• Main Author: Russell, James S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2012.
• Subjects: Environment.; Buildings.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Climate change.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Climate Change.; Urbanism.; Environmental Management.; Building Types and Functions.; Urban Ecology.; Sustainable Development.

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 growt...