(Ebook) Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions by Stephen J. Coyle, Andrés Duany ISBN 9780470536476, 0470536470

(Ebook) Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions by Stephen J. Coyle, Andrés Duany ISBN 9780470536476, 0470536470

The ultimate step-by-step action plan guidebook for making communities resilient, resourceful, and healthyMany of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving, and economically resilient. Sustainable and Resilient Communities delineates measures for repairing, retrofitting, and transforming our built environments and supporting systems—transportation, energy, water, natural environment, food production, solid waste, and economics—through: Methods for assessing a community's key sustainability quotientDeploying tools for establishing timely performance goals and metricsDeveloping strategies for evaluating, selecting, and implementing 'high-leverage' interventionsActivating policies, codes, programs, plans, and practices, as well as monitoring and upgrading their performanceThe book includes a range of targeted case studies, from New Orleans and South Carolina to Arizona and California, illustrating geographically diverse approaches for urban contexts large and small.A resource for developing an ecological urbanism, Sustainable and Resilient Communities employs time-proven, broadly applicable strategies and actions that can be customized for specific environmental, energy, and economic conditions.