Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

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“Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published December 20th 2010 by Island Press (first published July 20th 2010)
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Good stuff - strong graphics especially. His in-person presentation is better than the book, but maybe that's to be expected...
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