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  • The Bird-Friendly City

    Creating Safe Urban Habitats

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Ethics of Cities

    Shaping Policy for a Sustainable and Just Future

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting them directly and instead view the governance of cities as primarily an administrative task or, even worse, a merely political one. Timothy Beatley challenges readers to consider the issues in our cities not simply as legal or economic problems but as moral ones, asking readers “How ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Biophilic Cities

    Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasizing such elements as public transit, renewable energy production, and energy efficient building systems. While these are important aspects of reimagining urban living, they are not enough, says Beatley. We must remember that human ... Read more

    $52.59 USD

  • Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated for their technical services like stormwater reduction, from a biophilic viewpoint, they also facilitate experiences that contribute to better physical and mental health: natural elements in play areas can lessen ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Canopy Cities

    Protecting and Expanding Urban Forests

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests.Moving beyond the view that trees are luxuries and therefore non-essential to the life of a city, the book examines urban tree policies and approaches that foster tree protection, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Blue Urbanism

    Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relationship between urban development and the ocean. Modern society is more dependent upon ocean resources than people are commonly aware of—from oil and gas ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Native to Nowhere

    Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential element in the search for solutions to current sustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim Beatley draws on extensive research and travel to communities across North America and Europe to offer a practical examination of the concepts of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Green Urbanism

    Learning From European Cities

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    As the need to confront unplanned growth increases, planners, policymakers, and citizens are scrambling for practical tools and examples of successful and workable approaches. Growth management initiatives are underway in the U.S. at all levels, but many American "success stories" provide only one piece of the puzzle. To find examples of a holistic approach to dealing with sprawl, one must turn to ... Read more

    $52.59 USD

  • Planning for Coastal Resilience

    Best Practices for Calamitous Times

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and magnitude of coastal storms around the globe, and the anticipated rise of sea levels will have enormous impact on fragile and vulnerable coastal regions. In the U.S., more than 50% of the population inhabits coastal areas. In Planning for Coastal Resilience, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Habitat Conservation Planning

    Endangered Species and Urban Growth

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to maintain the ecological health of the earth. At the same time, however, the pressure to develop wildlife habitat for human settlement and economic gain also grows, causing frequent clashes between the forces of development and of conservation.This ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Blue Biophilic Cities

    Nature and Resilience Along The Urban Coast

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives. We need that nature daily, if not hourly, and so it must be nearby to where we live and work. This is central to the concept of ‘biophilic cities’ which is emerging as a global movement and guiding framework for city design and planning. Blue Biophilic Cities is about the promise of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Ecology of Place

    Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community

    by Timothy Beatley, Kristy Manning ...
    Current patterns of land use and development are at once socially, economically, and environmentally destructive. Sprawling low-density development literally devours natural landscapes while breeding a pervasive sense of social isolation and exacerbating a vast array of economic problems. As more and more counties begin to look more and more the same, hope for a different future may seem to be ... Read more

    $26.69 USD