Green Community / Edition 1

by Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Timothy Mennel

Overview

The health of our planet and ourselves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings. Our increasing dependence on fossil fuels over the last century has given us unprecedented individual mobility and comfort, but the consequences are clear. Climate change, sprawl, and reliance on foreign oil are just a few of the ch

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367330156
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan Piedmont-Palladino is an architect and curator at the National Building Museum.

Timothy Mennel is the Senior Editor for the American Planning Association

Table of Contents

Foreword Chase W. Rynd W. Paul Farmer, FAICP vi

Funder's Introduction: The Home Depot Foundation viii

Curator's Introduction Susan Piedmont-Palladino x

The Green Community in Context

The Sustainable City: A Mythical Beast? Sir Peter Hall 2

Density and Transportation

Round, Round, Get Around: Reducing Transportation Burdens in the Green Community F. Kaid Benfield 14

Introduction to Connectivity Fred Hansen 24

Creating the Planning and Infrastructure Framework for Mixed Use Mixed Income Transit-Oriented and Urban-Infill Development Jonathan Rose 36

Sustainable Megapolitan: How Large-Scale Urban Development Can Help Green America Robert E. Lang Mariela Alfonzo 44

Conservation and Preservation

Green Communities and the Redefining of Community Wealth Timothy Beatley 56

Finding Common Ground: Historic Preservation and Green Building Richard Moe Patrice Frey 64

Managing Development to Create Sustainable Communities Douglas R. Porter FAICP 70

Energy and Resources

Energy and Communities William Browning 78

Energy and Community Greening Thomas L. Daniels 83

The Spillover Effects of Growing Crops for Biofuels Scott A. Malcolm Marcel Aillery 88

Green Infrastructure for Slue Urban Watersheds Mary Rickel Pelletier 96

Local Sustainable Energy Sources Erica Heller, AICP Mark Heller, AICP 104

Local Health and Global Health

Healthy Communities, Green Communities Howard Frumkin 118

Atlantic Station 121

Climate Change and Public Health James A. LaGro Jr. 126

Toward Sitopia Carolyn Steel 134

Food and Community Greening Thomas L. Daniels 137

The Impact of the Built Environment on Health-The Brain's Stress Response and the Brain-Immune Connection: Implications for Health Care and Urban Design Esther M. Sternberg 144

Conclusion

Conclusion: Representative Earl Blumenauer 154

Contributors 160

Acknowledgments 164

Image Credits and Permissions 165

Index 166

Editorial Reviews

Green Community is a thoughtful, provocative collection of essays that explore a dizzying range of concepts that are contained in that elusive phrase “green community.” These timely essays vitally inform us—poised as we are on the cusp of what will likely be generational changes in our global economy, in how we provide the energy we need, in how we travel, and in our ideas about what constitutes “the good life” in our neighborhoods, towns, cities,and suburbs around the world.
-Harriet Tregoning, cofounder and former director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, former secretary of the Maryland Department of Planning, and cofounder of the Smart Growth Network

Green Community is a rich, fact-filled, and up-to-date collection of today’s critical environmental issues and how to deal with them. It is invaluable.
-Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way and Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown

Today, more than any time in history, we live in a global economy where quality of place drives the free flow of capital. And as the lines between urban, suburban, and rural challenges blur, from poverty to housing affordability, strong neighborhoods are increasingly becoming a yardstick with which we measure America’s success. Green Community is a definitive work on the sustainability challenge, offering us a blueprint for integrated transportation, housing, and land-use development and catalyzing a new generation of metropolitan and rural decision making that builds a geography of opportunity for every American.
-Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

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