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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

✍ Scribed by Peter Calthorpe (auth.)

Publisher
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
174
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Urbanism and Climate Change....Pages 7-24
The Fifty-Year Experiment....Pages 25-34
Toward a Green Urban Future....Pages 35-48
Design for Urbanism....Pages 49-61
The Urban Footprint....Pages 63-75
The Urban Network....Pages 77-90
The California Experiment....Pages 91-104
Four American Futures....Pages 105-117
A Sustainable Future....Pages 119-126
Back Matter....Pages 127-139

✦ Subjects

Climate Change; Cities, Countries, Regions; Urbanism; Urban Ecology

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