Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

Peter Calthorpe

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English

Island Press
01 June 2013

Global warming; Urban & municipal planning

“Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain.

But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change.

In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but other critical economies and lifestyle benefits.

Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts.

By: Peter Calthorpe
Imprint: Island Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd None ed.
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781597267212
ISBN 10: 159726721X
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 01 June 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Calthorpe is an architect and planner and a founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism, a Chicago-based advocacy group formed in 1992 to promote sustainable building practices. He is the author of The Regional City (Island Press, 2001). He won the 2006 Urban Land Institute's J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development for his work in walkable communities and land preservation.

Reviews for Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

I believe Peter Calthorpe to be the pre-eminent urban planner of our time. Herein is the first unobstructed view of a realistic, non-utopian urban society that can systemically address climate, economics, quality of life and the coming transition. The thesis of the book needs to be understood by all: the greatest and most innovative source of renewable energy rests within urban design, not solar panels or wind turbines. Peter's resonant vision creates a straight path to a workable, humane future. --Paul Hawken author of Blessed Unrest