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City Tech
20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban LandscapeLibrosJunio 2024By Rob WalkerThis 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...
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Megaregions and America's Future
LibrosMarzo 2022Robert 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...
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Design with Nature Now
LibrosOctubre 2019Edited 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...
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Toward a Vision of Land in 2015
International PerspectivesLibrosAbril 2008Edited by Gary C. Cornia and Jim RiddellBased on the proceedings of a 2006 conference cohosted by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan, this book offers...
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The Humane Metropolis
People and Nature in the 21st-Century CityLibrosOctubre 2006Edited by Rutherford H. PlattFour-fifths of Americans now live in the nation’s sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world’s population is now classified as “urban.” As cities become the dominant...
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Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation
A Heritage of Civic EngagementLibrosFebrero 2009Edited by Charles H.W. FosterMany partners have been involved over the last decade in developing an archive of materials documenting the evolution of land conservation in the six New England states. Coordinated by Charles H. W....
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Nature and Cities
The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and PlanningLibrosNoviembre 2016Edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando CarbonellNote: 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...
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Conservation Catalysts
The Academy as Nature’s AgentLibrosNoviembre 2014Edited 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,...
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Infrastructure and Land Policies
LibrosMayo 2013Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Karin L. BrandtMore 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...
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China’s Environmental Policy and Urban Development
LibrosFebrero 2013Edited 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...
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