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The Agile City : Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change.
In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global-warming -and blunt its...
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| 500 | |a A natural reckoning? | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a THE AGILE CITY; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; INTRODUCTION; Why Buildings?; Why Communities?; Why Buildings and Communities?; Is Undertaking Large-scale Change Worth It?; A ROADMAP; NATURE BITES US BACK; PART 1: The Land; Chapter 1: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THELANDSCAPES OF SPECULATION; WHOSE PROPERTY RIGHTS?; URBAN REALITY TRUMPS AGRARIAN VISION; CONSEQUENCES OF A TRANSACTIONAL LANDSCAPE; HOW ATTITUDES TOWARD LAND EVOLVE; OREGON DRAWS A LINE IN THE SAND; TOWARD AGILE OWNERSHIP; Chapter 2: A NEW LAND ETHOS; CONSERVING WHILE DEVELOPING; RESCUING THE RISKIEST PLACES; RETHINKING PROPERTY RIGHTS. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Land TrustsMitigation Banks; Land Readjustment; Borrowing Rather than Buying; AN ETHOS OF STEWARDSHIP; CROSSING BOUNDARIES; PART 2: Repairing the Dysfunctional Growth Machine; Chapter 3: REAL ESTATE; UNDERWRITING THE BIGGEST BOX FOR THE BUCK; HOW STRIP MALLS BECAME PORK BELLIES; THE URBAN MARKET GOES MISSING; WHY BEACH FOLLIES PAY; REWARDING PATIENCE; DUMBING REAL ESTATE DOWN; GROWING OLDER UNGRACEFULLY; REIMAGINING REAL ESTATE; LEAVING THE CHECKLISTS BEHIND; Chapter 4: RE-ENGINEERINGTRANSPORTATION; WHY YOU CAN'T GET THERE; TYING GROWTH TO TRANSPORTATION; BANISH THE BELTWAYS. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a FITTING BUSES, RAILS, AND STREETS TOGETHERRETROFITTING GRIDLOCKED SUBURBIA; CAN WE AFFORD TO KEEP SUBSIDIZING CARS?; PAYING AS WE GO; Chapter 5: ENDING THE WATER WARS; HOW WATER PROMOTES GROWTH; WATER WARS; STARTING SMALL; FROM PARKING TO PRAIRIE; FORESTING PHILADELPHIA; "FUTURE PROOFING" HOLLAND; LEARNING TO BE A "WATER CITY"; REDESIGNING THE MISSISSIPPI; Chapter 6: MEGABURBS; SUBURBIA GOES VIRAL; ENGINES OF MEGABURBAN WEALTH; THE NEW ECONOMY OF THE CITY; MEGABURBIA SEIZES UP; SUBURBAN VALUES VERSUS MEGABURBAN REALITY; LOOKING FOR ORLANDO; THE CITY AS A MUTT; PART 3: Agile Urban Futures. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 7: BUILDING ADAPTIVE PLACESLOVING THE LOWLY SHUTTER; TRADE WIND TECHNIQUES COOL CALIFORNIA; SEEKING SHADE IN THE DESERT; THE EAST: HEAT FROM THE EARTH AND PASSIVE POWER; CIVILIZING A SEVERE CLIMATE; SEEKING THE ELUSIVE SUN IN SEATTLE; DESIGNING DENSITY; PRESERVING THE POWER OF THE OLD; LEARNING FROM LOFTS; Chapter 8: CREATING TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURYCOMMUNITY; DALLAS: TWENTY MILES OF GREEN; BUILDING THE FUTURE WITH PAINT AND LAWN CHAIRS; WHAT LOW-CARBON LIFE IS LIKE; BERLIN: A TRAGIC CITY'S NEW GREEN IDENTITY; VANCOUVER GOES SKYWARD; BILBAO: FROM GRITTY TO GLEAMING. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a HAMBURG: THE GREENEST DOWNTOWNChapter 9: LOOSE-FIT URBANISM; PORTLAND: INVENTIVE INFILL; GROWING MATURE COMMUNITIES:RETROFIT, REPURPOSE, REINVENT; Increase Development Opportunity by Mixing Uses; Make Brownfields Desirable; EASING ACCESS; GOING WITH THE GRID; AGILE REGULATION; Keep Rules Simple; Regulating at the Right Scale; Regulating Affordably; LEED: HOW TO WIKI INNOVATION; Chapter 10: GREEN GROWS THE FUTURE; THE REIGN OF BUBBLENOMICS; The 1980s Reagan Bubble; The 1990s Dot-com Bubble; The 2000s Housing Bubble; LIMITS TO GROWTH; Developing Giants; Resource Shortages; Nature Bites Us Back. | |
| 520 | |a In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global-warming -and blunt its effects- by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Russell highlights tactics that create multiplier effects, which means that ecologically driven change can shore-up economic opportunity. | ||
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