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Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces edited by Elgin Cleckley | An Island Press book

Empathic Design

Type of content: Books

How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity.

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Invisible No More: Voices from Native America by  Raymond Foxworth and Steve Dubb | An Island Press book

Invisible No More

Type of content: Books

For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, “We are still here!” Yet today, Native leaders are at the center of social change,...

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Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker | An Island Press book

Human Transit, Revised Edition

Type of content: Books

“Walker is a realist, and Human Transit is a spirited guide—prescriptive but with a righteous dash of polemic—to what we get wrong about transit.” --Tom Vanderbilt in Slate   “This book gives professionals, pundits, and the citizenry th

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Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation by Danielle Arigoni | An Island Press book

Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation

Type of content: Books

Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older.

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Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water by Peter Annin | An Island Press book

Purified

Type of content: Books

In 2000, a transformative climate-driven “megadrought” swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river’s two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people.

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People, Planet, Design: A Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture’s Potential by Corey Squire | An Island Press book

People, Planet, Design

Type of content: Books

If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building? North Americans are inside buildings for more than 90% of the day. Meanwhile, the indoors are stifling us, sometimes even killing us.

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Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature by Stephen Robert Miller | An Island Press book

Over the Seawall

Type of content: Books

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built...

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At the Table: The Chef's Guide to Advocacy by Katherine Miller | An Island Press book

At the Table

Type of content: Books

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers and tattoos, not for saving the world.

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Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth by Alan Mallach | An Island Press book

Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World

Type of content: Books

Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been “more, more, more” in terms of growth – of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods.

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Hazardous Seas: A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning  Edited by Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu | An Island Press book

Hazardous Seas

Type of content: Books

Tsunamis are infrequent but terrifying hazards for coastal communities. Difficult to predict, they materialize with little warning, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage.

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