LEADER 04888nam 22009375 450 001 9910962480803321 005 20250730101758.0 010 $a9781597262385 010 $a1597262382 010 $a9781610910279 010 $a1610910273 024 7 $a10.5822/978-1-61091-027-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000332593 035 $a(EBL)3317631 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000878300 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11532146 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878300 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10814007 035 $a(PQKB)10367487 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-61091-027-9 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3317631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10713318 035 $a(OCoLC)923188463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3317631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1156878 035 $a(PPN)168305364 035 $a(Perlego)2985010 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000332593 100 $a20120421d2012 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Agile City $eBuilding Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change /$fby James S. Russell 205 $a1st ed. 2012. 210 1$aWashington, DC :$cIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics :$cImprint: Island Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781597267243 311 08$a1597267244 311 08$a9781597267250 311 08$a1597267252 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-271) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Prologue: Carbon-neutral Now -- Introduction: The Concrete Metropolis in a Dynamic Era -- Part 1: The Land. 1. Climate Change in the Landscapes of Speculation -- 2. A New Land Ethos. Part 2: Repairing The Dysfunctional Growth Machine. 3. Real Estate: Financing Agile Growth -- 4. Re-engineering Transportation -- 5. Ending the Water Wars -- 6. Megaburbs: The Unacknowledged Metropolis -- Part 3: Agile Urban Futures. 7. Building Adaptive Places -- 8. Creating Twenty-first-century Community -- 9.  Loose-fit Urbanism -- 10. Green Grows the Future -- Epilogue: Tools to Build Civic Engagement. 330 $aAmericans are waking up to the realization that global warming poses real challenges to the nation?s prosperity. In The Agile City, journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell engages the million dollar question: what do we do about it? The answer lies in changing our fundamental approach to growth. Improved building techniques can readily cut carbon emissions by half, and some can get to zero. These cuts can be affordably achieved in windshield-shattering desert heat and the bone-chilling cold of the north. Intelligently designing our towns, suburbs, and cities could reduce commutes and child chauffeuring to a few miles or eliminate it entirely. Who wouldn?t want a future like that? Agility, Russell explains, also means learning to adapt to the effects of climate change, which means redesigning the obsolete ways we finance real estate; distribute housing subsidies; provide transportation; and obtain, distribute, and dispose of water. These engines of growth have become increasingly dysfunctional both economically and environmentally. The Agile City highlights tactics that create multiplier effects. Ecologically driven change can stimulate economic opportunity, make more productive workplaces, and help revive neglected communities. Considering multiple effects and benefits of political choices and private investments is essential to assuring wealth and well-being. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level, with ingenuity and resourcefulness, makes the future look very green indeed. 606 $aEcology 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aEnvironmental management 606 $aArchitecture 606 $aBuildings 606 $aUrban ecology (Biology) 606 $aSustainability 606 $aEnvironmental Sciences 606 $aUrban Sociology 606 $aEnvironmental Management 606 $aBuilding Types and Functions 606 $aUrban Ecology 606 $aSustainability 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aEnvironmental management. 615 0$aArchitecture. 615 0$aBuildings. 615 0$aUrban ecology (Biology) 615 0$aSustainability. 615 14$aEnvironmental Sciences. 615 24$aUrban Sociology. 615 24$aEnvironmental Management. 615 24$aBuilding Types and Functions. 615 24$aUrban Ecology. 615 24$aSustainability. 676 $a363.738/74561 700 $aRussell$b James S$01807347 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962480803321 996 $aThe agile city$94357007 997 $aUNINA