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100 1 _aRussell, James S.
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245 1 4 _aThe Agile City
_h[electronic resource] :
_bBuilding Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change /
_cby James S. Russell.
264 1 _aWashington, DC :
_bIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics,
_c2012.
300 _aXVIII, 292p. 43 illus.
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505 0 _aAcknowledgments -- Prologue: Carbon-neutral Now -- Introduction: The Concrete Metropolis in a Dynamic Era -- Part 1: The Land. 1. Climate Change in the Landscapes of Speculation -- 2. A New Land Ethos. Part 2: Repairing The Dysfunctional Growth Machine. 3. Real Estate: Financing Agile Growth -- 4. Re-engineering Transportation -- 5. Ending the Water Wars -- 6. Megaburbs: The Unacknowledged Metropolis -- Part 3: Agile Urban Futures. 7. Building Adaptive Places -- 8. Creating Twenty-first-century Community -- 9.  Loose-fit Urbanism -- 10. Green Grows the Future -- Epilogue: Tools to Build Civic Engagement.
520 _aAmericans are waking up to the realization that global warming poses real challenges to the nation’s prosperity. In The Agile City, journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell engages the million dollar question: what do we do about it? The answer lies in changing our fundamental approach to growth. Improved building techniques can readily cut carbon emissions by half, and some can get to zero. These cuts can be affordably achieved in windshield-shattering desert heat and the bone-chilling cold of the north. Intelligently designing our towns, suburbs, and cities could reduce commutes and child chauffeuring to a few miles or eliminate it entirely. Who wouldn’t want a future like that? Agility, Russell explains, also means learning to adapt to the effects of climate change, which means redesigning the obsolete ways we finance real estate; distribute housing subsidies; provide transportation; and obtain, distribute, and dispose of water. These engines of growth have become increasingly dysfunctional both economically and environmentally. The Agile City highlights tactics that create multiplier effects. Ecologically driven change can stimulate economic opportunity, make more productive workplaces, and help revive neglected communities. Considering multiple effects and benefits of political choices and private investments is essential to assuring wealth and well-being. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level, with ingenuity and resourcefulness, makes the future look very green indeed.
650 0 _aEnvironmental sciences.
650 0 _aArchitecture.
650 0 _aUrban Ecology.
650 0 _aClimatic changes.
650 0 _aEnvironmental management.
650 0 _aSustainable development.
650 1 4 _aEnvironment.
650 2 4 _aClimate Change.
650 2 4 _aUrbanism.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Management.
650 2 4 _aBuilding Types and Functions.
650 2 4 _aUrban Ecology.
650 2 4 _aSustainable Development.
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