Urban Development for the 21st Century: Managing Resources and Creating Infrastructure

ISBN-13: 9781774635780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 364 str.

Kimberly Etingoff

Opis

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The articles chosen for this compendium cover many aspects of urban living, such as how individuals, households, and cities use resources and create greenhouse gas emissions and how urban resources can be expanded to include waste streams, among others. Case

Spis treści

Introduction. Part 1: Sustainable Resource Life Cycles. Part 2: Sustainable Transportation. Part 3: Sustainable Housing. Index.

O autorze

Kim Etingoff has a master’s degree in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University. She is currently researching a report on food resiliency within the city of Boston as part of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. She participated in the Practical Visionaries Workshop team that worked in partnership with Alternatives for Community and Environment to support a community food-planning process based in a Boston neighborhood, which was oriented toward creating a vehicle for community action around urban food issues, providing extensive background research to ground the resident-led planning process. She has worked in the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, and has also coordinated and developed programs in urban agriculture and nutrition education. In addition, she has many years of experience researching, writing, and editing educational books on environmental and food issues.