Seven rules for sustainable communities : (Record no. 42673)
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| fixed length control field | 02877 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781597266659 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 307 |
| Item number | CON |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Condon, Patrick |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Seven rules for sustainable communities : |
| Remainder of title | design strategies for the post-carbon world |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Washington |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Island Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii,200p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS : <br/>Foreword xi<br/>1 Introduction 1<br/>How Did Cities Get This Sick? 2<br/>Separation by Class and Income 5<br/>The Problem Emerges 6<br/>Reasons for Hope 11<br/>Seven Rules for Sustainable, Low-carbon Communities 14<br/>2 Restore the Streetcar City 17 <br/>A Day in the Life 18<br/>The Streetcar City as a Unifying Principle 20<br/>Urban Form and the Pattern of Walking and Riding 22<br/>Forty Percent Still Live There 24<br/>Continuous Linear Corridors, Not Stand-alone Nodes 25 <br/>Buses, Streetcars, Light Rail Transit, and Subways 31<br/>Streetcar as an Urban Investment 33<br/>Cars, Buses, Streetcar, or Heavy Rail? Case Study of the Broadway Corridor in Vancouver 34 <br/>What Is the Optimal Transit System? 35<br/>3 Design an Interconnected Street System 39 <br/>Challenges of the Dendritic Street System 41<br/>Four Types of Interconnected Street Systems 45 <br/>Block Size 48<br/>Why Is the Interconnected System Better? 49 <br/>Parcel Size 50<br/>Ideal Block and Parcel Size 52<br/>Road Width 54<br/>Fire Access 56<br/>Queuing Streets 57<br/>The Corner 59<br/>Lanes and Alleys 60<br/>Greenhouse Gas and Street Pattern 62<br/>4 Locate Commercial Services, Frequent Transit, and Schools within a Five-minute Walk 67<br/>Sense of Place in Corridors 70<br/>Transit, Density, and the Five-minute Walk 71<br/>Designing for the Bus or Streetcar 72<br/>The Walk to School 75<br/>5 Locate Good Jobs Close to Affordable Homes 79 <br/>The Historic Relationship between Work and Home 81 Solutions 84<br/>Metropolitan and Community Scale 86<br/>6 Provide a Diversity of Housing Types 95 <br/>The Influence of Building Type on GHG Production 97 <br/>The Sustainable Single-family Home 101 <br/>Build and Adapt Neighborhoods for all Ages and Incomes 102 Buildings with a Friendly Face to the Street 107<br/>7 Create a Linked System of Natural Areas and Parks 111 Fredrick Law Olmsted and Linked Natural Areas and Parks 112 <br/>Ian McHarg and the Greenway Revival 114 <br/>More Recent Progress 117 <br/>Progress on the Ground 118<br/>Case Study at the Regional Scale: The Damascus Design Workshop 119 <br/>Case Study at the Neighborhood Scale: Sustainable Fairview and the Pringle Creek Community, Salem, Oregon 125<br/>8 Invest in Lighter, Greener, Cheaper, Smarter Infrastructure 129<br/>Watershed Function 131<br/>Four Rules for Infiltration 141<br/>Green Infrastructure for Parcels 145<br/>Pervious or Impervious 150<br/>Impervious Paved Infiltration Streets 155<br/>Conclusion 161<br/>Acknowledgments 165<br/>References 167 <br/>Index 181<br/><br/> |
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| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
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| Topic | FP |
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