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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When the author, a Columbia professor, set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big, he thought up. His stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These multi-story intensely managed indoor farms, grown inside skyscrapers, are capable of producing traditional greenhouse crops, as well as pigs and fowl, year-round. They would provide solutions to...
Author
Publisher
Picador, A Thomas Dunne book, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a world where every city has its own local food source grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store--imagine the world of the vertical farm. When Columbia professor Dr. Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big--he thought up. In The Vertical Farm, he passionately...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives, Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with quality of life issues related to traffic and its accompanying pollution and time drain, divided neighborhoods, and a non-walkable life. Architect Ryan Gravel argues that this can change. Cities have the infrastructure and capability to create a healthier, more satisfying way of life by remodeling and augmenting different parts of cities to connect neighborhoods and...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"How do you create inviting and authentic urban environments where people feel at home? Countless community engagement workshops, studies by consulting firms, and downtown revitalization campaigns have attempted to answer this age-old question. In Urbanism Without Effort, Chuck Wolfe argues that 'unplanned' places can often teach us more about great placemaking than planned ones. From impromptu movie nights in a Seattle alley to the adapted reuse...
12) Patch atlas: integrating design practices and ecological knowledge for cities as complex systems
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
19) Town of Cumberland comprehensive plan: natural resources technical memorandum no. 7, September 1990
Author
Publisher
Maguire Group/Winsor Associates
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English