| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Funder's Introduction -- Curator's Introduction -- THE GREEN COMMUNITY IN CONTEXT -- The Sustainable City: A Mythical Beast? -- DENSITY AND TRANSPORTATION -- Round, Round, Get Around: Reducing Transportation Burdens in the Green Community -- Introduction to Connectivity -- Creating the Planning and Infrastructure Framework for Mixed Use Mixed Income Transit-Oriented and Urban-Infill Development -- Sustainable Megapolitan: How Large-Scale Urban Development Can Help Green America -- CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION -- Green Communities and the Redefining of Community Wealth -- Finding Common Ground: Historic Preservation and Green Building -- Managing Development to Create Sustainable Communities -- ENERGY AND RESOURCES -- Energy and Communities -- Energy and Community Greening -- The Spillover Effects of Growing Crops for Biofuels -- Green Infrastructure for Blue Urban Watersheds -- Local Sustainable Energy Sources -- LOCAL HEALTH AND GLOBAL HEALTH -- Healthy Communities, Green Communities -- Atlantic Station -- Climate Change and Public Health -- Toward Sitopia -- Food and Community Greening -- The Impact of the Built Environment on Health-The Brain's Stress Response and the Brain-Immune Connection: Implications for Health Care and Urban Design -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits and Permissions -- Index |
| Summary |
The health of our planet and ourselves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings. Our increasing dependence on fossil fuels over the last century has given us unprecedented individual mobility and comfort, but the consequences are clear. Climate change, sprawl, and reliance on foreign oil are just a few of the challenges we face in designing new-and adapting existing-communities to be greener. Based on the National Building Museum's Green Community exhibition, this book is a collection of thought-provoking essays that illuminate the connections among personal health, community health, and our planet's health. Green Community brings together diverse experts, each of whom has a unique approach to sustainable planning, design, politics, and construction |
| Notes |
"First published 2009 by the American Planning Association and the National Building Museum." |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 17, 2018) |
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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Communities -- United States
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Sustainable living -- United States
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Sustainable urban development -- United States
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Green movement -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Communities
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Green movement
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Sustainable living
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Sustainable urban development
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piont-Palladino, Susan, editor
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Mennel, Timothy, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351177979 |
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1351177974 |
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