Overview
This book shows that retrofitting cities, communities, and buildings can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a manner that is quicker and more cost-effective than expensive alternative energy investments or complicated tax solutions
It is one of the first books about sustainable architecture, planning, and design that is written primarily for a trade and professional audience
James Russell is the perfect author for such a book, as he is a journalist and registered architect who has been writing about cities, architecture, and environmental design for more than twenty years
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Land
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Repairing the Dysfunctional Growth Machine
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Agile Urban Futures
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About this book
In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global-warming -and blunt its effects- by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns.
The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Russell highlights tactics that create multiplier effects, which means that ecologically driven change can shore-up economic opportunity, can make more productive workplaces, and can help revive neglected communities.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Agile City
Book Subtitle: Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
Authors: James S. Russell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-027-9
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: James S. Russell 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-027-9Published: 23 April 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 292
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations
Topics: Climate Change, Urbanism, Environmental Management, Building Types and Functions, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Development
