At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families...
352 pages
6 x 9
11 photos, 15 illustrations
How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable
Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks—these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually...
280 pages
6 x 9
One of Planetizen's Top Planning Books for 2017 • San Francisco Chronicle's 2016 Holiday Books Gift Guide Pick What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a...
344 pages
8 x 9
215 photos, 37 illustrations
and Other Myths about Water in the West
"Illuminating." —New York TimesWIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have screamed, “...
264 pages
6 x 9
6 photos, 4 illustrations
Planning, Design, and Construction
Thirty years ago, the best thinking on urban stream management prescribed cement as the solution to flooding and other problems of people and flowing water forced into close proximity. Urban streams were perceived as little more than flood...
288 pages
7 x 10
Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management
Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. In the past century, global temperatures have risen an average of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, a trend that is expected to only...
408 pages
6 x 9
68 illustrations
Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy
One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016 The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from...
248 pages
6 x 9
14 photos, 33 illustrations
Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac
In 2006, Julianne Lutz Warren (née Newton) asked readers to rediscover one of history’s most renowned conservationists. Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey was hailed by The New York Times as a “biography of...
528 pages
6 x 9
46 photos and illustrations
Cities are the world’s future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is...
448 pages
6.5 x 8.38
35 photos, 35 illustrations