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People Habitat

25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities
  • ISBN-13: 9780989751100
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: PEOPLE HABITAT COMMUNICATIONS
  • By F. Kaid Benfield
  • Price: AUD $68.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2014
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Landscape art & architecture [AMV]
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With over 80 percent of Americans now living in cities and suburbs, getting our communities right has never been more important, more complicated, or more fascinating. Longtime sustainability leader Kaid Benfield shares 25 enlightening and entertaining essays about the wondrous ecology of human settlement, and how to make it better for both people and the planet.

People Habitat explores topics as diverse as “greena housing developments that are no such thing, the tricky matter of gentrifying inner cities, why people don't walk much anymore, and the relationship between cities and religion.  Written with intellect, insight, and from-the-heart candor, each real-world story in People Habitat will make you see our communities in a new light.
Prologue: Cities of the Imagination
 
Chapter 1. It's Not Really about Cities
Chapter 2. What Seems Green May Actually Be Brown
Chapter 3. But When Green Elements Align, the Results Can Be Impressive
Chapter 4. Revitalization Can Be Powerful
Chapter 5. In a Revitalizing District, Some Gentrification Might Be OK; but Not too Much
Chapter 6. Cities Need Nature
Chapter 7. There Can Be So Much in a Name–or Not
Chapter 8. Sustainability Requires Attention to Legacy
Chapter 9. But the Past Is Not the Future
Chapter 10. Community Isn't What It Used to Be, Apparently
Chapter 11. Meet the Environmental Paradox of Smart Growth
Chapter 12. Design Matters, But It Can Be Messy
Chapter 13. There Must Be a There
Chapter 14. Human Habitat Should Nourish the Mind, Body and Spirit
Chapter 15. Americans Don't Walk Much, and I Don't Blame Them
Chapter 16. Driving Should Be an Option
Chapter 17. Getting to School Shouldn't Be So Hard
Chapter 18. Walk, Drink, Walk Back
Chapter 19. Successful Suburbs Will Adapt to the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 20. Childhood Should Be about Exploring
Chapter 21. Grow Food, but Not Just Anywhere
Chapter 22. Cities Are Made for Faith, and Vice Versa
Chapter 23. Think Globally; Plan Locally
Chapter 24. Sustainability Is Where the Heart Is
Chapter 25. Sprawl Is Dying. Will Smart Growth Be Next?
 
Epilogue: People Habitat and the Landscape
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"...this is the discourse we desperately need in planning and designing our cities..."
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