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Chapter 1
1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6: Photographs by Larry Beasley
Chapter 2
2-1, 2-2: Images made available to the press by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development2-3: Photograph by Nils van der Burg, used under Creative Commons 2.0 generic license2-4, 2-5, 2-6: Images made available to the press by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development2-7: Photograph by the NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC2-8: Map by NOAA, in partnership with FEMA, USACE, USGCRP, and CEQ2-9, 2-10, 2-11: Maps by Climategem, Department of Geosciences, Environmental Simulation Laboratory, University of Arizona2-12: Photograph by Michielverbeek, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license2-13: Photograph by Andy Roberts, used under Creative Commons 2.0 generic license2-14: Map by the Government of the Netherlands, Make Room for the River2-15: Rendering courtesy of the Municipality of Nijmegen2-16: Photograph by Florian, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license2-17: Rendering courtesy of Aquasure2-18: Image by Government of Singapore Press Center2-19: Photograph courtesy of Gotham Greens2-20: Composite photograph by USGS 20042-21, 2-22: Photographs courtesy of Rolf Ditsch Solar Architektur
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2-23, 2-24, 2-25, 2-26: Maps by the University of Pennsylvania CPLN 702 Florida Urban Design Studio, 20072-27: Map courtesy of Metro Vancouver2-28: Map courtesy of the Urban Planning Council, Emirate of Abu Dhabi2-29: Photograph by Aboutmovies, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license2-30, 2-31, 2-32: Maps by the University of Pennsylvania CPLN 702 Lancaster County Urban Design Studio, 20122-33: Photograph courtesy of PUSH Buffalo2-34: Photograph by Larry Beasley2-35: Photograph by the City of Portland, Environmental Services2-36: Photograph by the State of Oregon, Department of Environmental Quality2-37: Site plan by the City of Stockholm, Planning Administration2-38: Photograph by Arikogan, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license2-39: Drawing from The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods by Harrison Fraker, published by Island Press and used by permission2-40: Site plan courtesy of PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc.2-41: Photograph by Country Wind, released into the public domain via Wikimedia Commons2-42: Photograph by Larry Beasley2-43: Image courtesy of City of Vancouver
Chapter 3
3-1, 3-2: Chart courtesy of Metrolinx3-3: Photograph by Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz, Mariordo, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license3-4: Photograph by Myrat, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license3-5: Photograph by Schwede 66, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license3-6: Photorendering courtesy of VIVA, Metrolinx York Region3-7: Photograph by flip 619 at used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license3-8: Photograph courtesy of Concert Properties
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3-9: Photograph by GTD Aquitaine, who has released it into the public domain through Wikimedia Commons3-10: Photograph by Larry Beasley3-11: Photograph courtesy of Fountains Southend Apartments3-12, 3-13: Aerial photograph and map courtesy of Fairfax County3-14: Photorendering courtesy of the City of New York, Department of Transportation3-15: Map courtesy of Omaha by Design3-16, 3-17: Maps by Federal Highway Administration, 20123-18: Map courtesy of Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development3-19: Map from Whitehouse.gov3-20: Photograph by Heidas, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license
Chapter 4
4-1, 4-2: Photographs by Larry Beasley4-3: Photograph courtesy of the City of Airdrie, Alberta4-4: Photograph by Larry Beasley4-5: Photography by David Shankbone, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license4-6: Photograph courtesy of the City of Airdrie, Alberta4-7: Photograph by Larry Beasley4-8: Photograph courtesy of Kobus Mentz4-9, 4-10: Photographs by Larry Beasley4-11: Zoning map courtesy of Penn Township4-12: Aerial photograph courtesy of the Lancaster County Planning Department4-13: Photograph by Larry Beasley4-14: Zoning map courtesy of the City of Cherry Hill4-15: Photograph by AgnosticPreschersKid, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license4-16: Photograph from Wikimedia Commons used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license4-17: Photograph by Larry Beasley4-18: Photography courtesy of Brent Brown
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4-19: Photograph courtesy of NM4-20, 4-21, 4-22, 4-23, 4-24, 4-25, 4-26, 4-27, 4-28, 4-29, 4-30, 4-31, 4-32, 4-33, 4-34, 4-35, 4-36: Photographs by Larry Beasley4-37: Drawing courtesy of the New York Regional Plan Association4-38: Photograph by Complicated, used in accordance with Wikimedia License 2.04-39: Photograph by Andrew Bossi, used under Creative Commons 2.5 generic license4-40: Photography by Larry Beasley4-41: Photograph courtesy of Paul Bedford4-42: Photograph by Larry Beasley4-43: Photograph courtesy of City of Vancouver4-44, 4-45: Diagram and map courtesy of Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC4-46, 4-47, 4-48, 4-49: Photographs by Larry Beasley
Chapter 5
5-1: Photograph by Larry Beasley5-2: Photograph by Aleksande Zykov/Paris 17, used under Creative Commons 2.0 generic license5-3: Photograph by Elizabeth Lloyd, used under Creative Commons 2.0 generic license5-4: Photograph courtesy of George Stoltz5-5: Photograph by Larry Beasley5-6: Photograph by Hellogreenway, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-7: Photograph by Billy Hathorn, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-8, 5-9: Photographs by Larry Beasley5-10: Drawing courtesy of the Seoul Metropolitan Government5-11: Photograph by Sydmolen, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-12: Photograph by Tamorian, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-13: Photograph by Desopha, used under Creative Commons 2.0 generic license
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5-14: Photograph by La Cita Vita, used under Creative Commons 2.0 generic license5-15: Photograph by Beyond My Ken, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-16: Photograph by Jim Henderson, dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons Universal Declaration 1.05-17: Composite photograph by Gryffindor IIVaaa, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-18: Photograph by Larry Beasley5-19: Drawing and rendered site plan courtesy of Cooper Robertson + Partners; drawing by Brian Shea5-20: Rendered site plan courtesy of the City of Vancouver5-21: Photograph by Gryffindor, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-22, 5-23, 5-24, 5-25: Photographs by Larry Beasley5-26: Drawing courtesy of James K. M. Cheng Architects, Inc.5-27: Photograph by Gryffindor, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-28, 5-29: Photographs by Larry Beasley5-30: Photograph by Gryffindor, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-31: Photograph by Larry Beasley5-32: Photograph by Sterilgutassitextin, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-33: Photograph by David Moran, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-34, 5-35, 5-36: Photographs by Larry Beasley5-37, 5-38, 5-39, 5-40: Photographs courtesy of the New York City Department of Transportation5-41, 5-42: Photographs by Larry Beasley5-43: Photograph by Jean-Christope BENOIST, used under Creative Commons 3.0 generic license5-44, 5-45, 5-46, 5-47, 5-48, 5-49: Photographs by Larry Beasley5-50: Photograph courtesy of the ROMA Design Group5-51: Photograph by Larry Beasley5-52: Rendering courtesy of the City of Dallas and the Trinity Trust; rendering by Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC
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5-53: Photograph by Larry Beasley5-54: Photograph courtesy of Peter Ladner, www.urbanfoodrevolution.com5-55: Photograph by Larry Beasley
Chapter 6
6-1: Photograph courtesy of the City of Dallas, CityDesign Studio6-2, 6-3, 6-4: Photographs by Larry Beasley
Notes
Chapter 1
1. See Ian McHarg, Design with Nature
(Garden City, NY: Published for the
Museum of Natural History by the Natural
History Press, 1969; repr., New York: Wiley,
1995); see also Philip H. Lewis, Tomorrow
by Design (New York: Wiley, 1995).
2. Ken Yeang, Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecolog-
ical Design (London: Wiley Academy, 2006).
3. For a more complete description of
the alternatives open to city designers
today, see Jonathan Barnett, City Design:
Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems
Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2011).
4. Jaime Lerner, Urban Acupuncture (Wash-
ington, DC: Island Press, 2014).
5. 2012 U.S. Census Bureau American Commu-
nity Survey data, released November 2013.
Chapter 2
1. Paul J. Crutzen, “The Geology of Mankind,”
Nature, 415 (January 3, 2002).
2. For a current summary of the scientific
case for climate change and its dangers,
see What We Know, a report by the
Climate Change Panel of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, March 2014.
3. National Climatic Data Center of the
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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4. Rebuild by Design was a project of the
President’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding
Task Force; it involved New York Univer-
sity’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the
Municipal Art Society, the Regional Plan
Association, and the Van Alen Institute.
Funding to supplement federal govern-
ment money came from the Rockefeller
Foundation, plus the Deutsche Bank
Americas Foundation, the Hearst Foun-
dation, the Surdna Foundation, the JPB
Foundation, and the New Jersey Recovery
Fund. There were ten teams:
• Interboro Partners with the New Jersey Institute of Technology Infrastructure Planning Program; TU Delft; Project Projects; RFA Investments; IMG Rebel; Center for Urban Pedagogy; David Rusk; Apex; Deltares; Bosch Slabbers; H+N+S; and Palmbout Urban Landscapes.
• PennDesign/OLIN with PennPraxis, Buro Happold, HR&A Advisors, and E-Design Dynamics.
• WXY architecture + urban design / West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture with ARCADIS Engineering and the Stevens Institute of Tech-nology, Rutgers University; Maxine Griffith; Parsons the New School for Design; Duke University; BJH Advisors; and Mary Edna Fraser.
• Office of Metropolitan Architecture with Royal Haskoning DHV; Balmori Associates; R/GA; and HR&A Advisors.
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• HR&A Advisors with Cooper, Robertson, & Partners; Grimshaw; Langan Engineering; W Architec-ture; Hargreaves Associates; Alamo Architects; Urban Green Council; Ironstate Development; Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corpora-tion; and New City America.
• SCAPE with Parsons Brinckerhoff; SeARC Ecological Consulting; Ocean and Coastal Consultants; the New York Harbor School; Phil Orton/Stevens Institute; Paul Greenberg; LOT-EK; and MTWTF.
• MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism and the Dutch Delta Collective by ZUS; with De Urbanisten; Deltares; 75B; and Volker Infra Design.
• Sasaki Associates with Rutgers University and ARUP.
• Bjarke Ingalls Group with One Architecture; Starr Whitehouse; James Lima Planning & Develop-ment; Green Shield Ecology; Buro Happold; AEA Consulting; and Project Projects.
• Unabridged Architecture with
Mississippi State University;
Waggonner and Ball Architects;
Gulf Coast Community Design; and
the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
5. National Research Council, Water
Reuse: Potential for Expanding the
Nation’s Water Supply through Reuse
of Municipal Wastewater (Wash-
ington, DC: National Academies Press,
2012).
6. World Population Prospects: The 2012
Revision, United Nations, New York,
2013.
7. Dickson Despommier, The Vertical Farm:
Feeding the World in the 21st Century (New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010).
8. Thomas Tidwell, testimony before the Senate
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
June 4, 2013.
9. James Hansen, lecture at Columbia University,
New York, September 22, 2012.
10. The Future of Geothermal Energy Impact of
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) on the
United States in the 21st Century, An Assess-
ment by an MIT-Led Interdisciplinary Panel
(Idaho Falls: Idaho National Laboratory, 2006).
Chapter 3
1. The statistics are from the International
Council on Clean Transportation’s European
Vehicle Market Statistics 2013. The current
numbers and 2030 predictions for light and
heavy vehicles are from this source. The
population statistics in this paragraph are
compiled from multiple sources that have
variations in methodology, time frame, and
so on. The resulting ratios of vehicles to
people should be understood as approxima-
tions. Explanation of the ratios not spelled
out in the text: for Canada, there were about
22 million cars and trucks on the road for a
population of about 35 million, or 0.62 vehicle
per person; for Australia, 15 million vehicles for
23 million people (0.652 vehicle per person);
for Japan, 75 million vehicles for 128 million
people (0.59 vehicle per person); and for the
European Union, 274 vehicles for about 500
million people, or 0.55 vehicle per person.
2. Vehicle Projections for European Union coun-
tries are from a 2006 paper, Vehicle Ownership
and Income Growth, Worldwide: 1960—2030,
by Joyce Dargay of the University of Leeds,
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Dermot Gately of New York University,
and Martin Sommer of the International
Monetary Fund, accessed from the
website of Dr. Thomas W. O’Donnell of
the New School. The population predic-
tions are from the United Nations.
3. See, for example, Capturing the Value of
Transit, a report for the U.S. Department
of Transportation, Federal Transit Admin-
istration, prepared by the Center for
Transit Oriented Development, November
2008.
4. BART Property Development, BART
Transit-Oriented Development Program,
November 2010.
5. Joel Garreau, Edge City, Life on the New
Frontier (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
6. The Tysons Corner Comprehensive Plan is
accessible online at http://www.fair
faxcounty.gov/tysons/comprehensive
plan/.
7. Matthew Braughton, Matthew Brill,
Stephen Lee, Gary Binger, and Robert
Cervero, Advancing Bus Rapid Transit and
Transit Oriented Corridors in California’s
Central Valley, Institute of Transportation
Studies at the University of California,
Berkeley working paper UCB-ITS-
VWP-2011-3, June 2011.
8. The partnership has been formed by the
Urban Land Institute Seattle chapter, King
County Metro Transit, the City of Seattle,
the City of Shoreline, and the ULI/Curtis
Regional Infrastructure Project.
9. Road Traffic Deaths Data by Country,
Global Health Observatory Data Reposi-
tory of the World Health Organization,
accessible online at http://www.who.int
/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/.
10. 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastruc-
ture, American Society of Civil Engineers,
accessible online at http://www
.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/
home.
11. Capacity Needs in the National Airspace
System 2007–2025, prepared by the MITRE
Corporation for the Federal Aviation
Administration, May 2007.
12. Beyond the Tracks: The Potential of High-
Speed Rail to Reshape California’s Growth,
SPUR report, January 2011.
Chapter 4
1. Lane Kendig with Susan Connor, Cranston
Byrd, and Judy Heyman, Performance
Zoning (Chicago: Planners Press, American
Planning Association, 1980).
2. Mortgage interest is not tax deductible
in Canada, but it is in the United States.
Government support for extending roads
and utilities to developing areas is also a
form of subsidy.
3. See Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of
Great American Cities (New York: Random
House, 1961).
4. A floor-area ratio of 10 permits the square
footage of a building to be ten times the
site area.
5. Clarence Perry, “The Neighborhood
Unit,” in The Regional Survey of New York
and Its Environs, vol. 7, Neighborhood
and Community Planning (New York:
Regional Plan of New York and Its
Environs, 1929).
6. The other founders were Peter Calthorpe,
Daniel Solomon, Stephanos Polyzoides,
and Elizabeth Moule.
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Chapter 5
1. Some historians have written that the
great extension of Parisian boulevards
under Napoleon III was planned to help
the authorities keep control of the city.
It is unlikely that anyone could have
believed this would work, as shown by
how easily the boulevards were blocked
by barricades during the rising of the
Paris Commune in 1870.
2. Much of the statistical information
about the Cheonggyecheon comes
from a presentation by Kie-Wook Kwon,
director of the Water Quality Manage-
ment Division of the Seoul metropolitan
government.
3. Concept architects: The Hulbert Group,
VIA Architecture, Downs/Archambault,
James K. M. Cheng, Davidson, Yuen
Simpson; landscape architects: Don
Vaughn Associates (concept) and Philips
Wuori Long (detailed design); principal
city staff: Larry Beasley (manager, senior
planner, and urban designer), Pat Woth-
erspoon and Ian Smith (project managers
and area planners), Ralph Segal and Jona-
than Barrett (urban design and devel-
opment planners), Jim Lowden (parks
planner), Elain Duvall (housing planner),
and Susan Clift and Michelle Blake
(engineers).
4. See Allan Jacobs, Great Streets
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995); and
Allan Jacobs, Elizabeth MacDonald,
and Yodan Rofe, The Boulevard Book
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003). Both
books present clearly dimensioned plans
of successful streets in many different
cities, accompanied by Allan Jacobs’s
excellent sketches. Also see National
Association of City Transportation Offi-
cials, Urban Street Design Guide (New
York: NACTO, 2013); Barbara McCann and
Suzanne Rynne, Complete Streets: Best
Policy and Implementation Practices (New
York: American Planning Association,
Planning Advisory Service, 2010); and
Victor Dover and John Messengale, Street
Design: The Secret to Great Cities and
Towns (New York: Wiley, 2014).
5. For a complete exposition of Gehl’s
philosophy and methods, see Jan Gehl,
Cities for People (Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2014).
6. See Lawrence Frank, Peter Engelke, and
Thomas Schmid, Health and Community
Design: The Impact of the Built Environ-
ment on Physical Activity (Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2003); and Howard
Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard J.
Jackson, Urban Sprawl and Public Health:
Designing, Planning, and Building for
Healthy Communities (Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2004).
7. Jan Gehl, in conversation with Jonathan
Barnett, Copenhagen, July 2013.
8. As quoted in Maria Stambler, “Urban
Planner Jan Gehl Wraps Moscow Project
with Advice,” Moscow News online, July
19, 2013.
9. See Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place:
Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair
Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart
of a Community (New York: Marlowe
House, 1989).
10. See William H. Whyte, City: Rediscovering
the Center (Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
Notes | 253
1988); and also the earlier William H.
Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban
Spaces (Washington, DC: The Conserva-
tion Foundation, 1980; repr., New York:
Project for Public Spaces, 2001).
11. See Anne Whiston Spirn, The Granite
Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
(New York: Basic Books, 1984).
12. See Herbert Dreiseitl and Grau Ludwig
Dreiseitel, Waterscapes: Planning, Building
and Designing with Water (New York:
Princeton Architectural Press, 2001);
Herbert Dreiseitl, New Waterscapes (New
York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005);
and Herbert Dreiseitl and Dieter Grau,
New Waterscapes: Planning, Building and
Designing with Water (Basel: Birkhauser,
2009).
Chapter 6
1. Miami 21 is an apparent exception:
Transect-based nomenclature applied to
the regulations for an entire city. Closer
inspection of the ordinance, however,
reveals many subcategories within the
six transect zones and many additional
districts, so the number of zoning catego-
ries is comparable to a conventional ordi-
nance. There are also significant land use
restrictions within the zones and districts.
Regulations for many areas remain essen-
tially the same except that the name of
the district has been changed. The big
innovations in this ordinance concern
concentrating new development in corri-
dors along major streets.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 49, 50f, 57–59
Accessory apartments, 136–37Adaptive reuse, 115, 115f, 171fAd hoc spaces, 199, 200fAffordable housing, 7, 62, 125–27, 136Afsluitdijk, Netherlands, 37Agricultural land, safeguarding, 39–40, 53fAgriculture, 40–42, 41f, 50f, 204fAirports, high-speed rail and, 89–91, 90fAir transport, in U.S. transportation system, 88Amsterdam, Netherlands, 97fAmtrak, Northeast corridor line, 88–90Aspen, Colorado, 234fAuckland, New Zealand, 99fAutomobile infrastructure removal, 3, 18Automobiles and automobile use: balancing
with other transportation, 65–68, 74–80, 220–22; electric, 47; exhaust pollution, 64; ownership trends, 66–67; putting walking and public space ahead of, 182–85; ratio of people to, 66; in U.S. transportation system, 88
Axioms of ecodesign, 10–13
Bangkok, Thailand, 32, 72, 73fBarrage, defined, 37BART (Bay Area Regional Transit), San
Francisco, 68, 74–75Battery Park City, New York: designing and
managing the public realm, 164–68; diagrammatic plan, 176f; guidelines for, 172; public realm in, 165; South End Avenue, 170f; waterfront esplanade, 175f, 177f; yacht basin and financial towers, 178f
Bay Area Regional Transit (BART), San Francisco, 68, 74–75
Beauty, for its own sake, 191fBIG (Bjarke Ingalls Group), 26, 28f
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Big Move transit expansion, Toronto, 68–70, 69f–70f, 73f
Biogas, 56Bioswales, 56fBjarke Ingalls Group (BIG),26, 28fBlock size, in public realm, 168–69Boston, Massachusetts, 32–33, 155, 156fBoulder, Colorado, 107Boulevard Book, The (Jacobs and MacDonald),
170Boulevards, as street model, 151fBricktown, Oklahoma City, 113fBritish Columbia Agricultural Land Reserve,
40, 50fBrownfield sites, 56BRT. See Bus rapid transit (BRT)Buffalo, New York, 54fBuilding reuse, 18, 115, 115fBuses and bus use: inequality issue in, 70Bus rapid transit (BRT): balancing automobile
use with, 64–65, 70–71; balancing transit systems with, 220–22; Bangkok, 73f; Curitiba, 71f; Istanbul, 72f; radial main-line, 71; restructuring urban corridors with, 80–82, 81f–82f; Toronto system under construction, 73f
Carbon tax adoption, 46Center for Quality Growth and Regional
Development, Georgia Institute of Technology, 86f
Cervero, Robert, 81Ch2M Hill, 203fCharettes, 211fCharlotte, North Carolina: New Bern station,
78f; transit system, 77Cheng, James K.M., Architects, 167, 173-74,
174fCheonggyecheon, Seoul, 157–60, 159fCherry Hill, New Jersey: zoning map, 110f
Index
Note: Figures are indicated by the letter “f” following the page number.
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Chicago, Illinois: Bloomingdale Park and Trail, 163
Child care centers, Vancouver, 119fCisterns, 54Cities: form of public spaces, 153–54City Lounge Program, Rotterdam, 181CityDesign Studio, Dallas, 211fCleveland, Ohio, BRT lines, 81Climate change, adapting to, 24–43, 212–20Coastal cities, comprehensive protections for,
213–14Coastal flooding: adapting to, 24–29; and
changing coastlines, 29–34; phased with-drawal from areas prone to, 214
Collingwood Village,Vancouver, 75Colorado Springs, Colorado, 97Commercial strips: creating neighborhoods
from, 138–44; transformation with BRT, 81Complete streets concept, 84, 192–94Concord Pacific Place,Vancouver. See False
Creek North, VancouverCongress for the New Urbanism, 132Connectivity, maintaining in public realm, 169Conservation: of water, 39–40Consumer aspirations, 99–100, 102–3Cooper-Eckstut, 167, 176fCopenhagen, Denmark, 150–51, 152fCrime and interventions, in older, deteriorated
neighborhoods, 144–46Crutzen, Paul, 22Curitiba, Brazil, 71, 71fCycling, 3, 16, 82–84, 222
Dallas, Texas: CityDesign Studio, 211f; Klyde Warren Park, 157, 157f; Lakewood neigh-borhood, 176f; Legacy Town Center north of, 114f; Trinity River enhancement project, 203f
David, Joshua, 162David Lam Park, Vancouver, 177Davidson, John, 167Decentralization, pushing back against, 110–13Delta Works, 26, 32Density: guidelines for housing families,
119–20, 120f; managing the experience of, 120–24; mixed, regulations for, 117–18, 127–33; in neighborhood formation, 141–42
Depoldering prototype, 34–35Desalination, 36–37Desalination plants, 37f, 57Design thinking, 29
Design with Nature (McHarg), 48Despommier, Dickson, 42Detention basins, 54Development, new, 48–49, 51–54Development regulations: blind spots, 96–98;
environmental consequences of, 96; experiential perspective needed in, 100; government concerns vs. consumer needs in, 99–100; impact on character of urban life, 94; incorporating environmental mapping into, 49–51; nature and, 104–7; origins and evolution of, in U.S. and Canada, 93–94; rewriting with enjoyable experience as component of, 102–3
Development rights, leveraging land values and, 230–33
Diller Scofidio + Renfrew, 162Distributed renewable energy, 44–46Ditsch, Rolf, Solar Architektur, 44Downs, Barry, 167Downtown centers, essentials of, 146–47Downtowns, housing in, 118–25Dreiseitl, Herbert, 202Drought, adapting to, 35–39, 216–17Duany, Andres, 131–32, 132fDupont Circle, Washington, D.C., 111f
Earth, photograph from space at night, 29fEastern Scheldt River Barrier, Netherlands,
26, 32Ecodesign: demand for, 224–25; growth model
for, 6–7; scope of, 13–14; as term, 7–8; urgent need for, and reason for optimism, 15–20
Ecodesign implementation: funding for, 238–39; public and private roles in, 209–12
Edge cities, 78–79Edge City, Life on the New Frontier (Garreau),
78Electric automobiles, 47Electric bicycles, 84Emissions, curbing, 47, 67Environmental mapping, incorporating into
development regulations, 49–51. See also Geographic Information System (GIS)
Environmental preservation and livability, integration of, 7–8
Environmental Simulation Laboratory, University of Arizona, 31, 31f–32f
Estuary impoundment, 37–38Experiential planning, 100
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Factories and power plants, reducing regional emissions from, 46–47
Fairfax County, Virginia, 79–80False Creek North, Vancouver: bridges, 180f;
child care center, 119f; David Lam Park, 175f; Davie Street, 171f; designing and managing the public realm, 164–68, 168f; guidelines for, 172–73; Quayside neighbor-hood, 174f; walkway/bikeway, 5f, 177f, 179f
Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 236FEMA (Federal Emergency Management
Agency), 49–50Flooding: areas where space for water
storage is needed, Rhine River delta, 35f, 45f; coastal, 24–34, 214; inland, 34–35, 215–16; of Marco Polo Terraces, Hamburg, Germany, 36f; proposal to protect lower Manhattan, 28f; risk of, in New York City region by 2050, 30f; watershed manage-ment to reduce, 51–54
Flood surge limits, Superstorm Sandy, 30fFlood-surge zones, enactment of, 50Florida: conservation priorities, 48, 48f;
conventional rail line, proposed, 90; effect of sea-level rise on Miami and Miami Beach, 31f; GIS map showing land under conservation, 49f; rejection of federal transportation money for high-speed rail, 88; Seaside, 131
Food shortages, preventing, 39Food supply, climate change and, 23Forest fire risks, adapting to, 42–43, 214–15Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York City,
130–31, 131fFossil fuels: pollution from, 64; subsidies for,
46Foster and Partners, 57Framework for ecodesign, 9Framework for sustainable, livable cities and
suburbs, 15Freiburg, Germany, 44–46, 45fFruitvale Village station, Oakland, California,
75f
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 132, 132fGarden suburbs, 133–34Garreau, Joel, 78–79Gehl, Jan, 179–80, 181f–182fGentrification, 112Geographic Information System (GIS), 48–49,
48f, 49–51, 49f, 104–7, 105fGeorge Wainborn Park,Vancouver, 177
Geothermal energy, 46–47GIS (Geographic Information System), 48–49,
48f, 49–51, 49f, 104–7, 105fGlobal food supplies, adapting to threats to,
39–43, 217–18Global warming: reducing causes of, 43–56,
218–19; trends in and effects of, 24Golf courses, designed to flood, 56Gotham Greens, New York City, 41, 41fGovernment and governments: changing
organization and processes within, 234–36; enhancing operational and knowledge base of, 236–37; maximizing coordination among, 236
Granville Island, Vancouver, 171Gray water, recirculation of, 39Great Streets (Jacobs), 170Greenhouse gas emissions, stabilization and
reduction efforts, 23–24, 44Greenhouses, urban, 41–42, 41fGreen roofs, 54Green streets, 54–56, 56fGuidelines for Housing Families at High
Densities (Vancouver, B.C.), 119–20Gulf Coast of U.S., geographic changes
expected, 31
Hamburg, Germany, 35, 36fHammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Sweden, 6–7,
56–57, 57f–59fHammond, Robert, 162Hansen, James, 46Helsinki, Finland, 114fHigh Point, North Carolina, 145High-speed rail: airports and, 89–91, 90f; air
transportation vs., 88; balancing long-distance transportation with, 84–91, 222–23; funding for, in U.S, 86–88; inter-national, 86–88; vision for, in America, 87f
Highways, elevated, 155Historic buildings, 18, 110, 115, 115fHistoric neighborhoods, 110Homelessness, 7Hotson, Norman, 171Housing: affordable, 7, 62, 125–27, 136; at edge
of urban growth boundary, Portland, 51f; in mixed-use downtowns, 118–25; mixing incomes in, 127
Housing tracts, creating neighborhoods from, 138–44
Hudson River, proposed estuary protection, 26f
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Hulbert, Rick, 167Hydrogen fuel cells, 47Hydrology management, 201–2
Ideal Conservation Network, 48–49, 49fInclusionary zoning, 126–27Indianapolis, Indiana, 155In-fill housing, 133f, 134, 135fInland flooding, adapting to, 34–35, 215–16Institute of Transportation Studies, University
of California, Berkeley, 81Interboro Partnership Urban Design and
Architecture, 27–28, 28fIsrael, recirculated water use, 38Istanbul, Turkey, 71, 72f, 186f, 195f, 200f
Jacobs, Allen, 170James Corner Field Operations, 162Japan, high-speed rail, 86–87John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 146
Kendig, Lane, 105Kennedy, David, 146Kentlands/Lakelands development,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 132, 132fKing County Metro Transit, Washington, 81Kwok, Stanley, 167
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 52f–53f, 105f, 106
Land surface temperatures, 23Land values, leveraging development rights
and, 230–33Laneway houses,Vancouver, 136, 137fLas Vegas, Nevada, 109fLeadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED), 6, 59–61, 240fLee, Myung-bak, 158LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design), 6, 59–61, 240fLegacy Town Center, Plano, Texas 114fLerner, Jaime, 14Lewis, Philip, 8Light-rail, 70, 77f, 78fLondon, Thames River Barrier, 32–33, 34fLong-distance transportation, balancing high-
speed rail with, 84–91, 222–23Los Alamos, New Mexico, 43fLos Angeles, California, 75, 77fLufa Farms, Montreal, 41
MacDonald, Elizabeth, 170Madrid Rio Park, Madrid, 160, 160fMain Street Project, National Trust for Historic
Preservation, 110–11Manzanares River, Madrid, 160fMarina Bay barrage/dam, Singapore, 37–38,
38fMarket gardens, 41Mathieux, Philippe, 161, 171fMAX (Metropolitan Area Express), Portland, 16Mayors’ Institute on City Design, 236McGarva, Graham, 167McHarg, Ian, 8, 48, 104, 107Megaregions, 86Melbourne, Australia, 37fMetropolitan growth boundary policies, 16Mexico City transit system, 68Miami, Florida, 21, 31f, 253n1Mingles units, 124–25Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, 74Mixed-density residential neighborhoods,
127–33Mixed-use building complexes and urban
districts, 113–18Mixed uses and multimodal transportation,
193fMixed-use suburban center, Dallas, 114fModal choice, as priority for sustainable cities,
221fModernism, following World War II, 130–31Montreal, Quebec, 68, 197fMulticity regions, 86
Nanjing, China, 68Naturalizing the public landscape, 202–3, 203fNeighborhood parties, 139fNeighborhoods: community development
strategy, 143–44; as component of city development, 129–33; local differences and anomalies, 142–43; older, 133–36; policy framework for, 139–42; restoration of old and deteriorated, 144–46; revival of, in suburbs, 131; walkable, essentials of, 146–47
Netherlands: effect of sea-level rise, 32; flooding and water storage needs, Rhine River delta, 35f, 45f; freshwater flooding and, 34; Make Room for the River policy, 34–35; new living patterns in Amsterdam, 97f; North Sea storm (1953),
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32; river estuary protection, 27f; Scheldt River Barrier, 27f; sustainable lifestyle in Rotterdam, 101f; Waal River widening, 36f
New Jersey Institute of Technology, 27–28New Orleans, Louisiana, projected sea-level
rise, 31New York City: Broadway at Times Square,
pre- and post-closure, 182f–183f; Brooklyn Bridge Park, 163–64, 173f; BRT system for Staten Island, proposed, 81f; Bryant Park, 189f; Cast Iron District/SoHo, 112; Forest Hills Gardens, 130–31, 131f; Herald Square, pre- and post-closure, 183f–184f; High Line Park, 162, 172f; Hunts Point region, 29; potential flood risk by 2050, 30, 30f; proposals to protect lower Manhattan, 25f, 26–27, 28f; regional plan (1929), 130f; SoHo lofts, 115; Superstorm Sandy, 24–26, 30, 30f; transit system, 68; Vision Zero, 83. See also Battery Park City, New York
Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, 31f
Obama, Barack,87,87fOklahoma City, Oklahoma, 112, 113fOldenburg, Ray, 187fOlin Partnership, 29, 189fOmaha, Nebraska, 82, 132–33, 138, 138fOregon Museum of Science and Industry
(OMSI), Portland, 56fOutdoor living spaces, Vancouver, 190fOvink, Henk, 25Ozone layer depletion, 24
Paris: Avenue des Champs Elysees, 191f; Boulevard Saint-Germain, 151f; extension of boulevards under Napoleon III, 252n1; Jardin du Palais Royal, 181f; Place des Vosges, 171–72, 173f; Promenade Plantée, 161, 171f; public realm in, 150; third places in, 187f
Park-covered freeways, 157fParsons Brinkerhoff Engineers, 26Pasadena, California, 77fPedestrian pathways, 17Penn Township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, 105fPeople United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH)
Buffalo, New York, 54fPerformance rating systems for urban and
environmental harmony, 56
Performance Zoning (Kendig), 105Permeable alleys, Vancouver, 55fPermeable paving, 54–55Perry, Clarence, 129–31, 130f–131f, 137–38Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 53, 112f, 155Pilot projects, finding solutions through,
237–38Pinyon pines die-off, 43fPlan for the New York City Region (1929,
Regional Plan Association), 130fPlanned communities, 131fPlanting beds in parking lots, 55Plant species, global warming and, 23Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth, 131–32, 132fPodium buildings, lower-scaled, 174fPolder, defined, 34–35Population, projected increases, 39Portland, Oregon: adoption of metropolitan
perspective, 16; bioswale, OMSI, 56f; green streets, 56f; housing development, edge of urban growth boundary, 51f; inner city, 17f; Jamison Square waterscape, 18f; Lovejoy Viaduct removal, 19; Pearl District, 19–20, 19f, 76–77; Portland Streetcar, 17f, 78f; removal of Harbor Drive, 157; reuse of historic large-floor-plate building, 115f; South Waterfront Neighborhood, 20; stormwater management, 54–55; success of inner-city revitalization strategy, 16; Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 19, 158f; transit system, 76–77
Private semipublic spaces, using, 190Property Endowment Fund, Vancouver, 207Prototypes for urban and environmental
harmony, 56–62Public housing projects, 130–31Public involvement in community design
processes, 211fPublic land as investment equity, 207–8Public landscapes, 202–5Public parks, 17–18, 56, 196–97, 196fPublic-private cooperation, 5f, 7, 19f, 103–4, 191Public realm: assuring safety and maximum
accessibility, 187–88; components of, 149–50; correcting disruptions in, 155–57; embracing beauty, 191–92; great cities of the world and, 150–53; incremental improvements to, 178–79; investment in, 17; landmarks and wayfinding, 176–78; managing, 205–8; multiuse streets,
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170–71; public involvement in design of, 205; putting walking and public space ahead of cars, 182–85; structural prin-ciples for, 168–78; in support of people and the environment, 233–39; two-way streets, 170
Public spaces: activities in, 194–95; bringing different functions to, 190; contribution to livability and health, 154–55; defining, with buildings, 171–75; dull quality of, 153–54; economic demands for, 192–99; environmental demands of, 199–204; experiential dimension of, 185–86; fostering third places, 186–87; furnishing, 188–90, 189f
PUSH (People United for Sustainable Housing), 54f
Quebec City, Quebec, 94,95f
Radial transit systems, 68, 70Rail transit systems, 68, 71Railways, elevated, 155Rain barrels, 53, 54fRapidRide, Seattle region, 81–82Real-estate investment, BRT and, 81Rebuild by Design, 25–26, 249n4Regina, Saskatchewan, 98fRegulations: for compact, mixed-use urban
centers, 113–18; incorporating ecological considerations into, 104–7; to keep people comfortable in downtown housing, 118–25; mobilizing toward more discretionary and transactional, 225–30; pushing back against rigidity of, 110–13; for walkable, mixed-density residential neighborhoods, 127–33
Renewable energy, distributed, 44–46Residential towers, Vancouver, 122Retail streets, enhancing, 197–99Rhine River delta, Netherlands, 35f, 45fRichmond, Virginia, 155, 156fRiver estuary protection, Netherlands, 27fRooftop farm, 41fRooftop greenhouses, 42Rose Fitgerald Kennedy Greenway, 155, 156fRotterdam, Netherlands, 33f, 101fRowhouses, 124–25Russell Sage Foundation, 130, 131f
Sacramento, California, 102fSan Francisco Bay Area, California, 31, 32f, 68,
74–75, 157San Joaquin River Valley,California, 31, 32f, 38Santa Barbara, California, 193fSanta Monica, California, 198fSavannah, Georgia, 150–51, 152fSCAPE Landscape Architects, 26, 27fScheldt River Barrier, Netherlands, 26, 27fSea-level rise: adapting to, 24–29, 212–14;
causes for, 22–23; effect on Miami and Miami Beach, 31f; effect on Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, 31f; effect on San Francisco Bay Area, 32f; and projected saltwater intrusion in San Joaquin River Valley, 32f; risk for major world cities, 32
Seaside, Florida, 131Seattle, Washington, 81Seoul, South Korea, 157–60, 159fSingapore, 37–38, 38fSiting buildings, spaces, and utilities,
200–201Sky Greens, Singapore, 41Skytrain, Vancouver, 74–75, 76f, 140fSocial diversity, 125–27Solar access, 107Solar energy, 44–46, 45f, 57Soul Farms, 41Southeast False Creek (SEFC) Village,
Vancouver: 2004 master plan, 60f; conversion of Athletes Village, 59–62; energy system, 62f; as LEED Platinum district, 240f; Olympic Village converted to mixed-use development, 61f; public-private cooperation, 5f
Spirn, Anne Whiston, 199Sprawl, 95f, 108–9SPUR report, 89Staten Island, New York City, 27f, 80, 81fStockholm, Sweden, 56–57Storm gates, Rotterdam harbor, 33fStorms, more frequent, 212–14Storm-surge barriers, movable, 32–33Storm surges, adapting to, 29–34Stormwater management, 54–55, 58fSt. Petersburg, Russia, 32–33Streetcars, 16Streetcar suburbs, 133–34Street-front retail, 198f
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Streets: boulevards as model for, 151f; complete, 192–94; design of, 65, 83–84; green, 54–56, 56f; as interconnected networks, 169; intimate and diverse, Auckland, 99f; public realm, 170–71; stan-dards for traffic management and fire access, 94f; three-and-a-half lane, 136f; typical suburban arterial, 154f; typical urban, and the public realm, 150f
Streetscape programs, Portland, 16Streetscape types, Tysons Corner, 80fStreet tree planting, 18Streetwalls and podium/tower buildings,
173fStrip mall, Las Vegas, 109fSuburban arterial street, typical, 154fSuburban development, conventional,
97f–98f, 101–2Suburban land, 138–39Suburban sprawl, 95f, 108–9Sun Ship, Freiburg, Germany, 45fSuperstorm Sandy, 24–26, 30, 30fSustainability and city design examples, 1–6Sustainable cities and suburbs, building
demand for, 100–104Sweden, Vision Zero, 82–83Sydney, Australia, 157
Tactical urbanism, 188Team Better Block, Dallas, 188Tear-downs, 135Technical University Delft, 27–28Tester, Jefferson, 47Thames River Barrier, London, 32–33, 34fThe Granite Garden (Spirn), 199Third places, 187fTidwell, Thomas, 42–43Tokyo, Japan, 68Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon,
19, 158fToronto, Ontario: Big Move transit expansion,
68–70, 69f, 70f, 73f; green roof bylaw, 54; guidelines for in-fill townhouses, 134; in-fill housing, 135f
Townhouses, 121f, 124–25, 124f, 135fTraffic congestion, 67, 84–85Traffic engineering priorities, reversing, 84Traffic-related deaths, 82–84Traffic safety, 82–84, 222
Transect-based nomenclature, 253n1Transit and transit systems: balancing BRT
with, 220–22; balancing car use and, 74–80; Big Move, Toronto, 68–70, 69f–70f, 73f; effective, and reduction in use of cars, 67–68; leveraging the connec-tion between real-estate and, 71–74; in Portland, 16; in redevelopment of commercial corridors, 138–39; Skytrain, Vancouver, 74–75, 76f, 140f
Transit mall concept, Portland,Oregon, 16Transit-oriented development, 74, 75f–78f, 140fTransit stations, spacing, 73–74, 139Transit systems, arguments against funding
new, 74Transportation: balanced, creating consumer
preferences for, 91; balanced systems, 65; emissions as percent of total green-house gas emissions, 47; long-distance, balancing with high-speed rail, 84–91, 222–23; multimodal, 193f; reducing energy use in, 47
Trinity River enhancement project,Dallas,Texas, 203f
Tysons Corner, Virginia, 79f–80f
Underground transit systems, 68, 71United Arab Emirates, 50f, 57–59University of Arizona Environmental
Simulation Laboratory, 32University of Pennsylvania School of Design,
29,48Urban and environmental harmony proto-
types, 56–62Urban and suburban agriculture, 40–41, 41fUrban design guidelines for neighborhood
formation, 141Urban fringe, creating new neighborhoods at,
137–38Urban greenhouses, 41–42, 41fUrban neighborhoods, successful, adding
housing to, 133–37Urban renewal, following World War II,
130–31Urban streets, typical, and public realm,
150fU.S. highway system, 85f, 86U.S. population growth, 85–86, 86fU.S. transportation system, 88
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Vancouver, B.C.: allotment vegetable garden along railway right-of-way, 204f; apart-ment towers and shared courtyards, 121f; building bases and terrace setbacks, 116f; Children’s Day event, 144f; Coal Harbour neighborhood, 4f; Collingwood Village, 76f; Country Lanes program, 55, 55f; David Lam Park, 196f; Elsie Roy School, 196f; Emery Barnes Park, 118f; as example of improved sustainability and city design, 2–6; Expo‘86, 238; Granville Island, 172f; Green Zone, 49; Guidelines for Housing Families at High Densities, 120f; housing for low-income people, 126f; in-fill housing, 133f; inner city, 4; Kitsilano neighborhood pub, 128f; LEED Platinum Neighborhood certification for SEFC Village, 6; live/work units, 125f; low-end-of-market worker housing, 126f; massing and spacing of towers, 123f; Metropolitan Green Zone, 50f; modal choice, 221f; Mount Pleasant area, 136f; neighborhood party, 139f; permeable alleys, 55f; planting requirements along sidewalks, 120f; podium/tower building, 173f; Property Endowment Fund, 207; public gardening program, 206f; residents’ identification with neighborhood, 129f; rooftop farming, 204f; rooftop market gardens, 41; Skytrain, 76f, 140f; South Cambie neighborhood, 190f; streetcar neighborhood as viable sustainable model, 143f; subsidized and market housing, Pacific Boulevard, 128f; tower/podium scenario, 122f; townhouses, 121f; townhouses/row houses, 124f; under-ground parking in private garages, 123f. See also False Creek North; Southeast False Creek (SEFC) Village, Vancouver
Vancouverism, 3, 4fVan Valkenburgh, Michael, Associates, 164, 173fVaughan, Don, 177Venice, Italy, 32–33Vergely, Jacques, 161, 171fVertical Farm, The (Despommier), 42Viaduct removal, 19, 160
Victorian Desalination Plant, Melbourne, Australia, 36–37, 37f
Vision Zero, 83
Waal River widening, Netherlands, 35, 36fWalkable cities, 15, 127–33Walkable developments and communities,
80f, 107–10, 129–30, 223Walkable distance, 69, 129–30, 139–40Walkable neighborhoods, 131–32, 137, 146–47Walking: and circumstances for casual
encounters, 181f; enhancements for, 16; enhancing, 82–84; as foundation for healthy lifestyle, 179–81; and incre-mental improvements in public realm, 179–81; as means of transportation, 84; in Vancouver, 3
Walkway/bikeway, 179fWallace Roberts & Todd, 203fWashington, D.C., 77–80, 79f, 111fWaste thermal energy use, 60–62Wastewater, and heat conversion, 56Water: agricultural uses, 40; conservation,
39; freshwater reservoirs, 37; potable, 35–39, 216–17; recirculation of, 38–39, 56; reservoirs, 37; storage for flooding, 35f, 45f; stormwater management, 54–55, 58f
Waterfronts, 158f, 163, 177fWaterscape series of books (Dreiseitl), 202Waterscapes, 18fWatershed management, 35f, 51–54, 106–7Weather changes, 22–23Weather events, severe, 21West 8 Landscape Architects, 25–26, 25fWetlands, constructed, 55Whyte, William H., 188, 191Wildwood, Missouri, 106Wind energy, 46, 57, 107Wisconsin, rejection of federal transportation
money for high-speed rail, 88Wuori, Don, 177WXY Architects, 25–26, 25f, 26f
Zoning, 97–98, 105f, 109–10, 110f, 126Zuiderzee, damming of, 37–38
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Advance Praise for Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
“Now impelled by the reality of climate change, we have a huge opportunity to move to a future of greater efficiency, better health, and more happiness. Barnett and Beasley provide a timely blueprint to shape the human habitat.”
—DAVID SUZUKI, Cofounder, David Suzuki Foundation “With the global ‘urban century’ in full swing, will cities old and new, central and suburban, become more sustainable and delightful? With Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs, Barnett and Beasley show us that the answer is certainly yes. Their insightful approach can and must be ours.”
— ETHAN SELTZER, Professor, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
“Barnett and Beasley have authored an inspiring study of ecological principles translated into civic action. They present a jargon-free framework for making cities that redefine our understanding of how places perform in terms of social, economic, and environmental measures. Drawing on their considerable experience in city design and planning from Vancouver to Abu Dhabi, Barnett and Beasley show how thoughtful ecodesign enriches the day-to-day experience of people who live, work, and visit today’s cities.”
—RAYMOND W. GASTIL, Director of City Planning, Pittsburgh
JONATHAN BARNETT is Emeritus Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning, and former Director of the Urban Design Program, at the University of Pennsylvania. An architect and planner as well as an educator, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of city design.
LARRY BEASLEY is the retired Co-Chief Planner for the City of Vancouver. He is now the Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning at the University of British Columbia and the founding principal of Beasley and Associates, an international planning consultancy. He is a member of the Order of Canada, his country’s premier civilian honor for lifetime achievement.
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