| Description |
1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Series |
Advances in Urban Sustainability Ser |
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Advances in Urban Sustainability Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Table and figures -- About the authors and contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1 Introduction -- Rising tides and flooded streets -- Adaptation urbanism: redesigning coastal cities for climate change -- Streets: a hidden resource that occupies 30% of cities -- Streets of the past/streets of the future -- Competing visions of the future -- Creating a meaningful urban policy platform for resilience: adaptation urbanism -- Chapter overview -- Note -- References |
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2 Coastal Urban resilience -- Coastal urban resilience: a paradigm for managing change -- Resilience: a conceptual lens for understanding planning in the age of climate change -- Defining resilience: articulating tensions, identifying opportunities -- Bouncing back or bouncing forward? -- Outlining the urban resilience climate policy problem: an urbanist view of resilience -- "Urbanizing" climate resilience -- Urban resilience issue 1: planning for the built environment -- Urban resilience issue 2: citizen participation and politics of development |
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Urban resilience issue 3: equity as an afterthought -- From market-oriented to adaptation urbanism resilience -- Urban resilience summary -- Notes -- References -- 3 From urban resilience to street resilience: Rethinking the role of streets in the climate-adapted city -- Addressing urban resilience tensions: towards adaptation urbanism -- From personal choices to climate resilience -- Deconstructing the transportation bureaucratic state: implications of induced demand -- Safe/climate/spatially efficient: rethinking urban transportation metrics -- Metrics of success 1: advance Vision Zero goals |
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Metrics of success 2: from level of service to decreasing vehicle miles traveled -- Metrics of success 3: target/fund active transportation and transit mode share goals -- Metrics of success 4: promote spatial efficiency for accessibility/livability/climate adaptation -- Safe/climate/spatially efficient and equitable: adaptation urbanism -- Metrics of success: summary -- Adapting streets for changing climate and mitigating GHG emissions through urban form -- Measurement metrics and the adapted city -- Green, blue, compact, and urban: the rise of the urban environmentalist |
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Copenhagen: green infrastructure as climate adaptation and mitigation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Adaptation urbanism: An urban resilience policy framework -- Addressing urban resilience tensions: building towards adaptation urbanism -- From green resilience and low-carbon resilience to adaptation urbanism -- Adaptation urbanism synthesis -- Adaptation urbanism case studies: purpose and methods -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Rotterdam: The resilient delta city -- Introduction -- Rotterdam: a delta city in a world of rising seas |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Rotterdam streets: moving from auto-orientation to livable streets |
| Subject |
City planning-Environmental aspects
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Local transit-Planning
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Community development.
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community development.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Community development
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Local transit -- Planning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Renne, John L
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| ISBN |
9780429640216 |
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0429640218 |
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