TY - BOOK AU - Coyle,Stephen TI - Sustainable and resilient communities: a comprehensive action plan for towns, cities, and regions SN - 9780470918722 AV - HT166 .S9125 2011eb U1 - 307.1/2 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - City planning KW - Environmental aspects KW - Regional planning KW - Community development, Urban KW - Sustainable urban development KW - Sustainable development KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Regional Planning KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Built Environment and Its Supporting Systems; Defining the Built Environment; Defining the Supporting Systems; The Two Fundamental Types of Built Environments; The Two Fundamental Types of Supporting Systems; Chapter 2: The Process of Transformation; Sustainable Plan-Making; The Plan-Making Steps; Chapter 3: The Physical Built Environment; Sustainable Community Commerce; Building Sustainable Communities: The Ecological Toolkit N2 - The ultimate step-by-step action plan guidebook for making communities resilient, resourceful, and healthy Many of today's communities face an unprecedented struggle to adapt and maintain their environmental, economic, and social well-being in an era beleaguered by fiscal constraints, uncertainty about energy prices and supplies, rapid demographic shifts, and accelerated climate impacts. This step-by-step guidebook for urban planners and urban designers explains how to create and implement an actionable plan for making neighborhoods, communities, and regions more environmentally healthy, re UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=535282 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=368308 ER -