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Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, …
Blue Urbanism
What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author …
Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century
?This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will …
Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design
What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated …
Resilient Cities, Second Edition
What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficient transportation systems, access …
Blue Biophilic Cities
There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives. We need that nature daily, if not hourly, and so it must be …
Resilient Cities
What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficient transportation systems, access …
The Bird-Friendly City
How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it …
Natural Hazard Mitigation
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, …
Ecology of Place
Current patterns of land use and development are at once socially, economically, and environmentally destructive. Sprawling low-density development literally devours natural …
Green Urbanism
As the need to confront unplanned growth increases, planners, policymakers, and citizens are scrambling for practical tools and examples of successful and workable approaches. …
Biophilic Cities
Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "e;greening"e; of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, …