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Building for People
Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities
- 218 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit. There is a diversity of housing types with abundant affordable and middle-income options. Schools, services, and pedestrianized streets make the neighborhood family friendly. As cities turn brownfields into green fields and look to maximize public investment in transit and infrastructure, ecodistricts are the answer. Eliason shows that this type of affordable, climate-adaptive living option is possible anywhere.
In Building for People, architect and ecodistrict planner Michael Eliason makes the case for low-carbon ecodistricts and presents tools for developing these residential and mixed-use quarters or neighborhoods. Drawing from his experience working in Europe and North America, he shows the potential for new climate-adaptive ecodistricts that directly and equitably address our housing shortages while simultaneously planning for climate change. Eliason explains that to create highly livable places with a low carbon impact, ecodistricts must incorporate ample social housing for a good economic and social mix of residents, invest in open space, create infrastructure that can adapt to a changing climate, and offer car-free or car-light realms. He also looks at how public health, livability, climate adaptation, and quality of life are interconnected.
Full-color photos and illustrations show what is possible in ecodistricts around the world, drawing heavily from examples in German cities.
Building for People shows professionals involved in regulating, planning, or designing our communities that high-quality, low-carbon living is within reach.
In Building for People, architect and ecodistrict planner Michael Eliason makes the case for low-carbon ecodistricts and presents tools for developing these residential and mixed-use quarters or neighborhoods. Drawing from his experience working in Europe and North America, he shows the potential for new climate-adaptive ecodistricts that directly and equitably address our housing shortages while simultaneously planning for climate change. Eliason explains that to create highly livable places with a low carbon impact, ecodistricts must incorporate ample social housing for a good economic and social mix of residents, invest in open space, create infrastructure that can adapt to a changing climate, and offer car-free or car-light realms. He also looks at how public health, livability, climate adaptation, and quality of life are interconnected.
Full-color photos and illustrations show what is possible in ecodistricts around the world, drawing heavily from examples in German cities.
Building for People shows professionals involved in regulating, planning, or designing our communities that high-quality, low-carbon living is within reach.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Subscribe to Island Press
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword: Urbanism in the Planetary Crisis
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Compact, Climate Adaptive Ecodistrict
- Chapter 2: Rethinking Urban Development in the United States
- Part I: Planning the Ecodistrict
- Part II: Quality of Life and Public Health
- Part III: Climate Adaptation and Nature
- Part IV: Building Decarbonization
- Epilogue: Unleashing Brilliant Futures
- Notes
- About the Author