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What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficient transportation systems, access to healthy green space, and lower-carbon buildings for all citizens?

Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer respond to these questions in the revised and updated edition of Resilient Cities. Since the first edition was published in 2009, interest in resilience has surged, in part due to increasingly frequent and deadly natural disasters, and in part due to the contribution of our cities to climate change. The number of new initiatives and approaches from citizens and all levels of government show the promise as well as the challenges of creating cities that are truly resilient.

The authors' hopeful approach to creating cities that are not only resilient, but striving to become regenerative, is now organized around their characteristics of a resilient city. A resilient city is one that uses renewable and distributed energy; has an efficient and regenerative metabolism; offers inclusive and healthy places; fosters biophilic and naturally adaptive systems; is invested in disaster preparedness; and is designed around efficient urban fabrics that allow for sustainable mobility.

Resilient Cities, Second Edition reveals how the resilient city characteristics have been achieved in communities around the globe. The authors offer stories, insights, and inspiration for urban planners, policymakers, and professionals interested in creating more sustainable, equitable, and, eventually, regenerative cities. Most importantly, the book is about overcoming fear and generating hope in our cities. Cities will need to claim a different future that helps us regenerate the whole planetthis is the challenge of resilient cities.



About the Author :
Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and Director of CUSP. Newman has served on the Board of Infrastructure Australia and a Lead Author for Transport on the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report. He is the author of numerous books including Resilient Cities, Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems, and Sustainability and Cities. Timothy Beatley is Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. He has published extensively, including the following books Biophilic Cities, Resilient Cities, and Green Urbanism (Island Press). Heather Boyer is VP/Executive Editor at Island Press and 2005 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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"Each chapter relies on a combination of research, theory, argument, and examples to make its case, and the book manages to be detailed yet fairly concise. Each chapter is helpfully capped with a section drawing conclusions on that topic that relate directly to business, government, and communities....Completely revised and updated to address significant changes in the intervening years, the book is once again fresh and comes at a time when 'resilience' has become an urban watchword and rallying cry."-- "Civil Engineering" "The authors are selling hope in a time when fear is easy and cheap. And they find vivid ways to do so...Overall, this is a book of practical hope."-- "Planning"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781610916851
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Island Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Sub Title: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence
  • ISBN-10: 1610916859
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Width: 152 mm


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