Book description
The ultimate step-by-step action plan guidebook for making
communities resilient, resourceful, and healthy
Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt
and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in
an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy
prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate
impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban
designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for
making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally
healthy, resource-conserving, and economically resilient. Sustainable
and Resilient Communities delineates measures for repairing,
retrofitting, and transforming our built environments and supporting
systemsÂ-transportation, energy, water, natural environment, food
production, solid waste, and economicsÂ-through:
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Methods for assessing a community's key sustainability
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Deploying tools for establishing timely performance goals and
metrics
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Developing strategies for evaluating, selecting, and
implementing 'high-leverage' interventions
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Activating policies, codes, programs, plans, and practices, as
well as monitoring and upgrading their performance
The book includes a range of targeted case studies, from New Orleans
and South Carolina to Arizona and California, illustrating
geographically diverse approaches for urban contexts large and small.
A resource for developing an ecological urbanism, Sustainable and
Resilient Communities employs time-proven, broadly applicable
strategies and actions that can be customized for specific
environmental, energy, and economic conditions.
STEPHEN COYLE, AIA, LEED AP, founder and principal
of Town-Green [www. town-green. com] based in Oakland, California, and
cofounder of the National Charrette Institute [www.
charretteinstitute. org] and Townworks/DPZ [www. townworks. org], is
an architect, urbanist, and community planner. Coyle and his
colleagues design and repair landscapes, buildings, neighborhoods, and
cities throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. As co-designer
of the award-winning Contra Costa Centre Transit Village, Coyle
developed sustainability plans for Hayward, Gilroy, Martinez, Napa,
Pleasanton, and Tracy, California. With Bill Lennertz, Coyle helped to
"green" Portland and other Oregon communities through New
Urbanist plans and form-based codes.
DANIEL DUNIGAN, AICP, LEED AP, closely collaborated with Steve
Coyle on the creation of this book. Dunigan, an urban designer with
Town-Green, has a wide range of professional experience including
climate action planning, public outreach and charrette facilitation,
urban design master planning, detailed architectural specification,
and all phases of design/build project management.
