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

The Agile City Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change / by James S. Russell.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, James S. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Climate change.
Urban planning.
City planning.
Environmental management.
Buildings.
Urban ecology (Biology).
Sustainable development.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

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