(Library ebook) Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
♥ Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, Heather Boyer ♥
| #876564 in Books | Island Press | 2009-01-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.67 | File Name: 1597264997 | 184 pages |
||1 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| MUST read!!|By Anita M. Lorenz|Anyone who has anything to do with town planning should read this book. Anyone who is concerned about environmental issues should read this book. Anyone who isn't concerned MUST read this book!! It scares the daylights out of me, and will do the same for any thinking person. The simple message is that it is half-past time to act, and we must||
"This is the book that we city planners have been waiting for! Powerful, persuasive and instructive, Resilient Cities offers the first comprehensive overview of how to achieve sustainability in our cities."
Half of the world’s inhabitants now live in cities. In the next twenty years, the number of urban dwellers will swell to an estimated five billion people. With their inefficient transportation systems and poorly designed buildings, many citiesespecially in the United Statesconsume enormous quantities of fossil fuels and emit high levels of greenhouse gases. But our planet is rapidly running out of the carbon-based fuels that have powered urban growth... [PDF.xq78] Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change Rating: 4.91 (573 Votes)
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