Island Press #ad - The book, enhanced by its superb four-color graphics, is a call to action and a road map for moving forward. Peter calthorpe shows us what is possible using real world examples of innovative design strategies and forward-thinking policies that are already changing the way we live. But calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change.

Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts. 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 other critical economies and lifestyle benefits.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Design with Nature

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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

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The Architecture of the City Oppositions Books

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The Image of the City Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series

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Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes

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City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn On Architecture

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City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

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