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Author
Publisher
Arje Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates conservation programs in 42 communities, that are saving natural areas, farmland and open space using such methods as development rights transfer, open space taxes, and preservation of species efforts. Communities include Pima County, Arizona.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An expert in American housing examines the rise of sprawling subdivisions, their effect on the environment, and sustainable development strategies.
Americans are spreading out more than ever-into "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, where big subdivisions offer big houses. We cling to the notion of safer neighborhoods and better schools, but what we get are longer commutes, higher taxes, and a landscape of strip malls and office parks.
The...
Series
Yearbook of agriculture ; 1987
Publisher
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Shoemaker & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others. Without historical understanding of this practice of dispossession- the displacement of Native peoples, the destruction...
Author
Publisher
Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our current understanding of private property and boldly proposes opening up North America's beautiful, vast, and off-limits countryside. Hometown: Hamilton, ON. Print run 20,000." --
18) Division Street
Publisher
Frogpondia Films
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
English
Description
"Explores the impact that highways have on wildlife and wildlife habitat, and underlines the need for proper transportation and development planning by taking wildlife corridors into consideration. The film presents a new generation of ecologists, engineers, planners, and everyday citizens who are making way for wildlife by transforming the future of the American road." --
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best practices. With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. As the cityʹs director of planning from 1992 until 2000, Kristina Ford is uniquely placed to use these opportunities as a springboard for an eye-opening discussion of the intransigent problems and promising possibilities facing city planners across the nation and beyond. In The Trouble with...