Regional & Area Planning

Resilience and Opportunity examines the important ingredients in post-disaster recovery, with an eye toward how to rebuild communities that are more resilient and prosperous in the face of multiple disasters.

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities - the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore directly dependent on urban ...design. In Living Architecture, Living Cities Christopher Day moves beyond the current emphasis on technological change. He argues that eco-technology allows us to continue broadly as before and only defers the impending disaster. In reality, most negative environmental impacts are due to how we live and the things we buy. Such personal choices often result from dissatisfaction with our surroundings. As perceived environment has a direct effect on attitudes and motivations, improving this can achieve more sustainable lifestyles more effectively than drastic building-change - with its notorious performance-gap limitations. As it's in places that our inner feelings and material reality interact, perceived environment is place-based. Ultimately, however, as the root cause of unsustainability is attitude, real change requires moving from the current focus on buildings and technology to an emphasis on the non-material. Featuring over 400 high quality illustrations, this is essential reading for anyone who believes in the value and power of good design. Christopher Day's philosophy will continue to inspire students with an interest in sustainable architecture, urban planning, and related fields.
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A well-illustrated guide that offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird's eye view to granular details. It features case studies that show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city...'s unique needs.
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Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they cover only three to four percent of the world's land surface, the ecological footprints of cities cover the entire globe. The world's environmental resources are widely recognised to be d...rastically overstretched and depleting. To meet the aspirations of developing and developed societies across the world, something needs to change. Mere 'sustainable development' is not enough. The planning of new cities, as well as the retrofit of existing cities, needs to undergo a profound paradigm shift. Instead of simply using up resources more sustainably, cities need to become producers as well as consumers of those resources. We need to move away from linear understandings of sustainability, and make cities virtuous cycles when it comes to resources. Creating Regenerative Cities is a concise, solution-oriented manual for creating regenerative cities. A wide range of technical, management and policy solutions already exist, but so far implementation has been too slow and too little, in large part because the kinds of holistic approaches needed are alien to fragmented and process driven urban policy making and governance. Herbert Girardet's experience as an ecologist, thinker and consultant to cities around the world over 30 years has created this unique combination of tried and tested best practice with the fundamental shift needed in the way we think about our cities.
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Begins with an in-depth history of the Tactical Urbanism movement and its place among other social, political, and urban planning trends. With a detailed set of case studies that demonstrate the breadth and scalability of tactical urbanism interventions, this book provides a deta...iled toolkit for conceiving, planning, and carrying out projects.
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