Overview
Revised, updated, and reorganized around the authors' new characteristics of a resilient city
Expanded from the first edition to include issues of health and equity
Includes an expanded geographic scope beyond US, Europe, and Australia to cities in Asia and South America
Offers a forward-thinking look toward regenerative cities using hopeful global examples
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About the authors
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively in these areas, including the following books: Ethical Land Use; Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth; Natural Hazard Mitigation; and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management. In recent years much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. His books that explore these issues include Biophilic Cities, Resilient Cities, and Green Urbanism(Island Press).
Heather M. Boyer is VP/Executive Editor at Island Press and 2005 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Cities
Book Subtitle: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence
Authors: Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, Heather Boyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-686-8
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-686-8Published: 05 October 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 248
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Transportation