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1. City Tech

   20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban Landscape
   Livros
   Junho 2024
   By Rob Walker

   This book is currently available for pre-order. It will be published in June 2024. The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by...

2. Megaregions and America's Future

   Livros
   Março 2022
   Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang, and Frederick R. Steiner

   “[This] visionary book provides a high-level map that charts a path through a set of daunting challenges, imagining step-by-step the choreography of reconfiguring, and thereby renewing, the...

3. Design with Nature Now

   Livros
   Outubro 2019
   Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming

   “I highly encourage students, faculty, and practitioners to read this book and distill for themselves the overarching lessons. Design With Nature Now is timely because it reintroduces us to an...

4. Nature and Cities

   The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning
   Livros
   Novembro 2016
   Edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell

   Note: If you are ordering multiple copies of this book, please contact our warehouse by email at lincolnorders@pssc.com or by phone at 877-526-3257 for a shipping quote. “This book overflows...

5. Conservation Catalysts

   The Academy as Nature’s Agent
   Livros
   Novembro 2014
   Edited by James N. Levitt with a foreword by Stephen Woodley

   “We can gain encouragement from the coalition of groups that have rallied together to promote conservation and embrace connectivity: universities, environmental groups, land trusts, churches,...

6. Infrastructure and Land Policies

   Livros
   Maio 2013
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Karin L. Brandt

   More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence...

7. China’s Environmental Policy and Urban Development

   Livros
   Fevereiro 2013
   Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man

   “It is well known that rapid urbanization and industrialization in China have had serious consequences for China's environment. Far less recognized are the wide ranging efforts undertaken...

8. Resilient Coastal City Regions

   Planning for Climate Change in the United States and Australia
   Livros
   Março 2012
   Edited by Edward J. Blakely and Armando Carbonell

   “Mounting evidence reveals ever-faster, more extreme outcomes in spheres climatic, economic, and so on; earth’s revenge may be sooner than we expect. We must do more than adapt and...

9. Property in Land and Other Resources

   Livros
   Novembro 2011
   Edited by Daniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom, with a foreword by Douglass C. North

   This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural resources. It is a rich source of...

10. Climate Change and Land Policies

    Livros
    Maio 2011
    Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

    Developing policies that will keep climate change in check has become a global priority, as increasing greenhouse gas emissions contribute to extreme weather patterns. If these emissions remain...