Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities - Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World

Informationen zum Autor Patrick M. Condon is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, affiliated with the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. He is the author of numerous books including Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities (Island Press). Klappentext Questions of how the design of cities can respond to the challenge of climate change dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the U.S. and Canada. With admirable clarity, Patrick Condon responds to these questions. He addresses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design recommendations. No other book so clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. No other book takes on this breadth of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to such convincing and practical solutions. Zusammenfassung Questions of how the design of cities can respond to the challenge of climate change dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the U.S. and Canada. With admirable clarity! Patrick Condon responds to these questions. He addresses transportation! housing equity! job distribution! economic development! and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design recommendations. No other book so clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological! economic! and social consequences. No other book takes on this breadth of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to such convincing and practical solutions.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Condon, Patrick M Condon, Patrick M. Condon, Condon Patrick M.
• Assisted by: Yaro Robert (Foreword)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2010
• EAN: 9781597266659
• ISBN: 978-1-59726-665-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; North America, Urban & municipal planning, North America (USA and Canada), Urban and municipal planning and policy