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People Cities by Peter Newman and Annie Matan | An Island Press book

People Cities

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Land Use Planning

“A good city is like a good party—you stay for longer than you plan,” says Danish architect Jan Gehl. He believes that good architecture is not about form, but about the interaction between form and life.

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The Past and Future City

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Land Use Planning

At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today.

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Foundations of Restoration Ecology, Second Edition by Margaret A. Palmer, Joy B. Zedler, and Donald A. Falk | An Island Press book

Foundations of Restoration Ecology

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Ecological Restoration

The practice of ecological restoration, firmly grounded in the science of restoration ecology, provides governments, organizations, and landowners a means to halt degradation and restore function and resilience to ecosystems stressed by climate change...

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Water is for Fighting Over

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Water

"Illuminating." —New York TimesWIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis.

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Biting the Hands that Feed Us

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Food & Agriculture

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 make these...

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Our Renewable Future by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley | An Island Press book

Our Renewable Future

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Energy & Climate

One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016  The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world.

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Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Sustainable Development

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 over how they will grow.

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Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Julianne Lutz Warren | An Island Press book

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Biography & Autobiography

In 2006, Julianne Lutz Warren (née Newton) asked readers to rediscover one of history’s most renowned conservationists.

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NACTO Transit Street Design Guide

Transit Street Design Guide

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Land Use Planning

Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends: in 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the highest since the dawn of the highway era.

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Restoring Neighborhood Streams by Ann L. Riley | An Island Press book

Restoring Neighborhood Streams

Type of content: Books

Book Category: Ecological Restoration

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.

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