Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs

• Main Authors: Barnett, Jonathan (Author), Beasley, Larry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015.
• Subjects: Architecture.; Environment.; Architecture / Design.; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Environment, general.
• Physical Description: VIII, 265 p. 132 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781610914062

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.