Urbanism In The Age Of Climate Change
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Urbanism In The Age Of Climate Change
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Author : Peter Calthorpe
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2010-12-20
Urbanism In The Age Of Climate Change written by Peter Calthorpe and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-20 with Architecture categories.
“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.
Sustainable Urban Development In The Age Of Climate Change
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Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-28
Sustainable Urban Development In The Age Of Climate Change written by Ali Cheshmehzangi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-28 with Science categories.
This book considers the impact of climate change on cities, advocating that people are the panaceas and antidote to mitigating climate change, by enhancing their involvement in achieving sustainable development Goals (SDGs). This leads to the development of an SDG best practice participation template, which is supported by an extensive checklist of the ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ in participatory processes. Using case studies, extensive literature reviews and meta-analysis to make a case for a people-centric and integrated approach to sustainable urban development, it examines the role of governance in climate change, focusing on decision making processes, policies and regulations, as well as focusing on the significance of a people-oriented approach on climate change and cities. Through an extensive global outlook, this book highlights bottom-up methods of implementing and achieving sustainable urban development in the age of climate change. These highlights should help to develop new mindsets, new strategies, new directions and new policies, through which we can see a more sustainable approach to urbanisation and urban development globally, which can start ‘equipping future generations with the tools for them to help their future generations’.
Inclusive Urbanization
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Author : Krishna Shrestha
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-25
Inclusive Urbanization written by Krishna Shrestha and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-25 with Architecture categories.
How do we include and represent all people in cities? As the world rapidly urbanizes, and climate change creates global winners and losers, understanding how to design cities that provide for all their citizens is of the utmost importance. Inclusive Urbanization attempts to not only provide meaningful, practical guidance to urban designers, managers, and local actors, but also create a definition of inclusion that incorporates strategies bigger than the welfare state, and tactics that bring local actors and the state into meaningful dialogue. Written by a team of experienced academics, designers, and NGO professionals, Inclusive Urbanization shows how urbanization policy and management can be used to make more inclusive, climate resilient cities, through a series of 18 case studies in South Asia. By creating a model of urban life and processes that takes into account social, spatial, cultural, regulatory and economic dimensions, the book finds a way to make both the processes and outcomes of urban design representative of all of the city’s inhabitants.
Extreme Cities
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Author : Ashley Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2017-10-17
Extreme Cities written by Ashley Dawson and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Nature categories.
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world’s megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise. In Extreme Cities, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities, describing the efforts of Staten Island, New York, and Shishmareff, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls, he argues. Rather, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. As much a harrowing study as a call to arms Extreme Cities is a necessary read for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming, and of the cities of the world.
Climate Change And Cities
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Author : Cynthia Rosenzweig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-29
Climate Change And Cities written by Cynthia Rosenzweig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-29 with Nature categories.
Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.
Growing Cooler
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Author : Reid H. Ewing
language : en
Publisher: Urban Land Institute
Release Date : 2008
Growing Cooler written by Reid H. Ewing and has been published by Urban Land Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it -- by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
Urban Regeneration
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Author : Steffen Lehmann
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Urban Regeneration written by Steffen Lehmann and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Science categories.
Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance. It is a 21st-century manifesto of urban principles compiled by a prominent urbanist, for the regeneration of UK cities, focusing on the characteristics of a ‘good place’ and the strategies of sustainable urbanism. It asks readers to consider how we can best transform the derelict, abandoned and run-down parts of cities back into places where people want to live, work and play. The book frames an architecture of re-use that translates and combines the complex ‘science of cities’ and the art of urban and architectural design into actionable and practical guidance on how to regenerate cities. Fascinated by the typology and value of the compact UK and European city model, Lehmann introduces the concept of ‘high density without high buildings’ as a solution that will make our cities compact, walkable, mixed-use and vibrant again.
Emergent Urbanism
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Author : Assoc Prof Tigran Haas
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-10-28
Emergent Urbanism written by Assoc Prof Tigran Haas and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Political Science categories.
In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban design schemes. Bringing together leading academics from across a range of disciplines, including Douglas Kelbaugh, Ali Madanipour, Saskia Sassen, Gregory Ashworth, Nan Elin, Emily Talen, and many others, Emergent Urbanism identifies the specific issues dominating today’s urban planning and urban design discourse, arguing that urban planning and design not only results from deliberate planning and design measures, but how these combine with infrastructure planning, and derive from economic, social and spatial processes of structural change. Combining explorations from urban planning, urban theory, human geography, sociology, urban design and architecture, the volume provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview, highlighting the complexities of these interactions in space and place, process and design.
Cities People Planet
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Author : Herbert Girardet
language : en
Publisher: Academy Press
Release Date : 2004-12-15
Cities People Planet written by Herbert Girardet and has been published by Academy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-15 with Architecture categories.
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Climate Design
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Author : AECOM (Firm)
language : en
Publisher: Oro Editions
Release Date : 2010
Climate Design written by AECOM (Firm) and has been published by Oro Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
"A collection of works from academics and AECOM's thought leaders"--Cover.