Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions

By Stephen J. Coyle

Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving, and economically resilient. Sustainable and Resilient Communities delineates measures for repairing, retrofitting, and transforming our built environments and supporting systems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470536470
• ISBN13: 9780470536476
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 8.2"