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- 008 200312s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng
- 020 __ |a 9780367258559 |q hardcover
- 020 __ |a 9780367258566 |q paperback
- 020 __ |z 9780429290213 |q ebook
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |e rda |d DLC
- 050 00 |a HT166 |b .B5197 2020
- 099 __ |a CAL 022020248928
- 100 1_ |a Birkeland, Janis, |d 1945- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Net-positive design and sustainable urban development / |c Janis Birkeland.
- 264 _1 |a New York, NY : |b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |c 2020.
- 300 __ |a xxi, 386 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm
- 336 __ |a text |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 520 __ |a "'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities. Positive Development theory holds that development could create more net ecological and social gains than no construction at all. It explains how existing conceptual, physical and institutional structures are inherently biased against the preservation and expansion of social and natural life-support systems, and proposes explicit reforms to planning, design and decision making that would enable development to increase future options and social and natural life-support systems - in absolute terms. Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development is aimed at students, academics, professionals and sustainability advocates who wonder why existing approaches have been ineffective. It explains how to reform the anti-ecological biases in our current frameworks of environmental governance, planning, decision making and design - and suggests how to make these changes. Cities can increase both the 'public estate' (reduce social stratification, inequity and other causes of conflict, increase environmental quality, wellbeing and access to basic needs, etc.); and the 'ecological base' (sequester more carbon and produce more energy than used during construction and operation, increase ecological space to support ecological carrying capacity, ecosystem functions and services, restore the bioregions and wilderness, etc.). No small task, this new book provides academic theory and professional tools for saving the planet"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a City planning |x Environmental aspects.
- 650 _0 |a Cities and towns |x Growth.
- 650 _0 |a Sustainable buildings |x Design and construction.