| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, portrait |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Advance Praise; Title Page; Rights Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; Chapter 1: As We Build, So Shall We Live; Chapter 2: The City in Evolution; Chapter 3: The City in Nature; Chapter 4: The City in History; Chapter 5: The City Today; Chapter 6: Access and Transportation; Chapter 7: What to Build; Chapter 8: Plunge on in!; Chapter 9: Personal Odyssey; Chapter 10: Tools to Fit the Task; Chapter 11: What the Fast-Breaking News May Mean; Chapter 12: Toward Strategies for Success; Afterword: Rebuilding New Orleans; Further Reading; Notes; Index; About the Author |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1: As We Build, So Shall We Live -- Chapter 2: The City in Evolution -- Chapter 3: The City in Nature -- Chapter 4: The City in History -- Chapter 5: The City Today -- Chapter 6: Access and Transportation -- Chapter 7: What to Build -- Chapter 8: Plunge on in! -- Chapter 9: Personal Odyssey -- Chapter 10: Tools to Fit the Task -- Chapter 11: What the Fast-Breaking News May Mean -- Chapter 12: Toward Strategies for Success -- Afterword: Rebuilding New Orleans |
| Summary |
Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention. Ecocities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecological principles for the long term sustainability, cultural vitality and health of the Earth's biosphere. Unique in the literature is the book's insight that the form of the city really matters and that it is within our ability to change it, and crucial that we do. Further, that the ecocity within its bioregion is comprehensible and do-able, an |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Sustainable development.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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sustainable development.
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urban environments.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Sustainable development
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Stadsplanering -- miljöaspekter.
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Stadsplanering -- sociala aspekter.
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Ekologiskt byggande.
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Hållbar utveckling.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007360442 |
| ISBN |
1550923773 |
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9781550923773 |
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