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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.