The Self-sufficient City

The Self-sufficient City
Author: Vicente Guallart
Publisher: Actar
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781940291031

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Self Sufficient City

Self Sufficient City
Author: Lucas Cappelli
Publisher: Actar-D
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9788492861330

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Self-reliant Cities

Self-reliant Cities
Author: David J. Morris
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1982
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Degrowth in the Suburbs

Degrowth in the Suburbs
Author: Samuel Alexander
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811321310

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is the only feasible principle for suburban renewal. They depart from the anti-suburban sentiment of much environmentalism to show that existing suburbia can be the centre-ground of transition to a new social dispensation based on the principle of self-limitation. The book offers a radical new urban imaginary, that of degrowth suburbia, which can arise Phoenix like from the increasingly stressed cities of the affluent Global North and guide urbanisation in a world at risk. This means dispensing with much contemporary green thinking, including blind faith in electric vehicles and high-density urbanism, and accepting the inevitability and the benefits of planned energy descent. A radical but necessary vision for the times.

Going Local

Going Local
Author: Michael Shuman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136782338

National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens. Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing not in outsiders but in locally owned businesses.

The Urban Village

The Urban Village
Author: Alberto Magnaghi
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781842775813

A practical manifesto for how cities can respond to the pressures of globalization

Sustainable Communities Design Handbook

Sustainable Communities Design Handbook
Author: Woodrow W. Clark II
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2010-07-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080963366

The objective of Sustainable Communities Design Handbook is to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, both now and for generations to come. This means creating a better and safer environment internationally through the sustainable use of natural resources, encouraging sustainable development which supports a strong economy, and ensuring a high quality environment that can be enjoyed by all. Sustainable Development Partnerships brings together in one reference today's most cutting edge technologies and methods for creating sustainable communities. With this book, Environmental Engineers, Civil Engineers, Architects, Mechanical Engineers, and Energy Engineers find a common approach to building environmental friendly communities which are energy efficient. The five part treatment starts with a clear and rigorous exposition of sustainable development in practice, followed by self-contained chapters concerning applications. - Methods for the sustainable use of natural resources in built communities - Clearly explains the most cutting edge sustainable technologies - Provides a common approach to building sustainable communities - Coverage of sustainable practices from architecture to construction

Just Urban Design

Just Urban Design
Author: Kian Goh
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 026254427X

Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities. Scholars who write about justice and the city rarely consider the practices and processes of urban design, while discourses on urban design often neglect concerns about justice. The editors of Just Urban Design take the position that urban design interventions have direct and important implications for justice in the city. The contributions in this volume contextualize the state of knowledge about urban design for justice, stress inclusivity as the key to justice in the city, affirm community participation and organizing as cornerstones of greater equity, and assert that a just urban design must center and privilege our most marginalized individuals and communities. Approaching spatial and social justice in the city through the lens of urban design, the contributors explore the possibility of envisioning and delivering social, spatial, and environmental justice in cities through urban design and the material reality of built environment interventions. The editors’ combined expertise includes urban politics and climate change, public space, mobility justice, community development, housing, and informality, and the contributors include researchers and practitioners from urban planning, sociology, anthropology, architecture, and landscape architecture. Contributors: Rachel Berney, Rebecca Choi, Teddy Cruz, Diane E. Davis, Fonna Forman, Christopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Alison B. Hirsch, Jeffrey Hou, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Setha Low, Matthew Jordan Miller, Vinit Mukhija, Chelina Odbert, Francesca Piazzoni, and Michael Rios.

DIY Projects for the Self-Sufficient Homeowner

DIY Projects for the Self-Sufficient Homeowner
Author: Betsy Matheson
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1589235673

"Step-by-step, how-to projects for home rain collection, solar panels, food storage, solar energy systems, eco-friendly improvements, bee keeping, and more"--Provided by publisher.

The Urban Homestead

The Urban Homestead
Author: Kelly Coyne
Publisher: Process
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

An essential handbook for the urban homesteading movement showing readers how to grow their own food, raise city chickens, gain energy independence and more. Illustrations, tips, anecdotes, and projects are designed to help urban households become more self-sufficient and sustainable.