ResiliCities, Second Edition (ePub)
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What does it mean to be a resilicity in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficitransportation systems, access to healthy green space, and lower-carbon buildings for all citizens?Peter Newman,...
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What does it mean to be a resilicity in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficitransportation systems, access to healthy green space, and lower-carbon buildings for all citizens?Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer respond to these questions in the revised and updated edition of ResiliCities. Since the first edition was published in 2009, interest in resilience has surged, in part due to increasingly frequand deadly natural disasters, and in part due to the contribution of our cities to climate change. The number of new initiatives and approaches from citizens and all levels of governmshow the promise as well as the challenges of creating cities that are truly resilient.The authors' hopeful approach to creating cities that are not only resilient, but striving to become regenerative, is now organized around their characteristics of a resilicity. A resilicity is one that uses renewable and distributed energy; has an efficiand regenerative metabolism; offers inclusive and healthy places; fosters biophilic and naturally adaptive systems; is invested in disaster preparedness; and is designed around efficiurban fabrics that allow for sustainable mobility.ResiliCities, Second Edition reveals how the resilicity characteristics have been achieved in communities around the globe. The authors offer stories, insights, and inspiration for urban planners, policymakers, and professionals interested in creating more sustainable, equitable, and, eventually, regenerative cities. Mimportantly, the book is about overcoming fear and generating hope in our cities. Cities will need to claim a differfuture that helps us regenerate the whole planet-this is the challenge of resilicities.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Newman
Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and Director of CUSP. Newman has served on the Board of Infrastructure Australia and a Lead Author for Transport on the IPCC's 5th AssessmReport. In 2011, Newman was awarded the Sidney Luker medal by the Planning Institute of Australia (NSW) for his contribution to the science and practice of town planning in Australia, and in 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport, particularly related to the saving and rebuilding of Perth's rail system. He is the author of numerous books including ResiliCities, Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems, and Sustainability and Cities.Timothy Beatley is Chair of the Departmof Urban and Environmental Planning and Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years.His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively in these areas, including the following books: Ethical Land Use; Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth; Natural Hazard Mitigation; and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management.In recyears much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. His books that explore these issues include Biophilic Cities, ResiliCities, and Green Urbanism (Island Press).
Heather Boyer is VP/Executive Editor at Island Press and 2005 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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- Autor: Peter Newman
- 2017, Englisch
- Verlag: Island Press
- ISBN-10: 1610916867
- ISBN-13: 9781610916868
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2017
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