Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy FutureNorth Atlantic Books, 1987 - 140 Seiten Ecocity Berkeley offers innovative city planning solutions that would work anywhere, but the book offers a vision of what the future can be like with a fair amount of planning beforehand. This book is very inspirational, and could be used to advocate similar planning improvements in any large city. This book is meant for anyone interested in environmental activism, and anyone looking for serious innovations in their city. |
Inhalt
ECOCITY | 3 |
First Things FirstDeal with the Causes | 11 |
The Ecocity Adventure | 45 |
Notes on Strategy | 51 |
The Natural Endowment | 57 |
Berkeley Waterfront | 65 |
The Flats and the Hills | 75 |
Neighborhoods | 81 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agricultural ALAMEDA COUNTY Arcosanti automobile BART Bay Area beach beautiful Berkeley Hills Berkeley's bicycle bike biological bioregion blocks bridges build ecocities built buses cafes California campus car-free zones cars carts Cerro Gordo changes close compact connected create creative creek restoration cultural density areas diversity downtown Ebenezer Howard Ecocity Design ecocity zoning ecologically healthy electric environment Ernest Callenbach farm freeway hills housing larger live located Marina marsh miles natural neighborhood centers North North Berkeley BART Ohlone parking lots pedestrian Permaculture places planning population proximity policies recycling reduced rooftop gardens SAN FRANCISCO BAY School of Ecocity SCHOOLHOUSE CREEK Shattuck shoreline slopes slow streets solar greenhouses South Berkeley space species strategy Strawberry Creek streetcars subsidies tall buildings tion town traffic transit transportation trombe wall Urban Ecology village walk waterfront West Berkeley wind woonerf
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