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Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design
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What if environmentally damaged landscapes could not only be remediated from an ecological standpoint, but also designed to replenish an entire community as well as the nature surrounding it? The Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design incorporates ecology, engineering, sociology, and design elements into a new paradigm for environmental r
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Series Statement: Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development
- Foreword
- Visible Cities: A Meditation on Civic Engagement for Urban Sustainability and Landscape Regeneration
- Preface
- Environmental Reparation with People in Mind: Regenerative Landscape Design at the Interface of Nature and Culture
- Acqua Alta: Venice, the New Atlantis?
- Contributors
- About The Editor
- Part 1: Landfill Islands
- Chapter 1. To Love a Landfill: The History and Future of Fresh Kills
- Chapter 2. Restoration of Drastically Disturbed Sites: Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor
- Part 2: Canals and Creeks
- Chapter 3. The Zurich Stream Daylighting Program
- Chapter 4. A Multifaceted, Community- Driven Effort to Revitalize an Urban Watershed: The Lower Phalen Creek Project
- Chapter 5. Retrieving Buried Creeks in Seattle: Political and Institutional Barriers to Urban Daylighting Projects
- Part 3: Coasts
- Chapter 6. Wherefore the Rhizome? Eelgrass Restoration in the Narragansett Bay
- Chapter 7. Bottom-Up Community-Based Coral Reef and Fisheries Restoration in Indonesia. Panama, and Palau
- Chapter 8. Coastal Ecosystem Restoration through Green Intfrastructure: A Decade of Success in Reviving Shellfish Beds with a Stormwater Wetland in Massachusetts
- Com'era Dov'era: Battling Water, Time, and Neglect with MOSE and Other Techno-Fix Reparations in Venice
- Part 4: Communities
- Chapter 9. Detroit [Re]Turns to Nature
- Chapter 10. Rebuilding Salmon Relations: Participatory Ecological Restoration as Community Healing
- Chapter 11. Renovation of Byzantine Qanats in Syria as a Water Source for Contemporary Settlements
- Chapter 12. Growing Green Infrastructure Along the Urban River: Duwamish Stories
- Chapter 13. Residential Street Design with Watersheds in Mind: Toward Ecological Streets
- Part 5: Heritage Sites
- Chapter 14. Cultural and Environmental Restoration Design in Northern California Indian Country
- Chapter 15. Preserving Cultural and Natural Resources: The Site Development Plan for the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge State Heritage Area
- Part 6: Regions
- Chapter 16. Extreme Projects: Ecological Restoration Needs to Address Altered Ecosystems at Larger Spatial Scales
- Chapter 17. Sudbury, Canada: From Pollution Record Holder to Award Winner Restoration Site
- Passerelle: Bridging Concerns, Contentions, and Conflicts in the Sociology of Restoring Serenity to Venice
- Reparative Paradigms: Sociological Lessons for Venice from Regenerative Landscape Design
- Index
- Back cover