Climate change and dwindling global resources bring with them a set of complex challenges, demanding new design and planning approaches that achieve more with less. Climate: Design, written for designers, architects, planners, policymakers, and academics alike, explores the current paradigm shift and illustrates how new thinking can convert investments in urban infrastructure, land use, and development into resilient and enduring support systems for human and environmental prosperity.
Author Peter Droege, an acknowledged expert in the field of renewable, sustainable design, joins forces with pioneering design firm EDAW, to focus on radical solutions and planning measures for combating climate change, and for attempting to adjust to life on a warming planet. The book explores both the current paradigm shift and design and planning practice — and how to apply professional expertise to mitigate the human causes of climate change, and adapt to its already inevitable impacts.
Author: Peter Droege
Cover: Hardcover
Publisher: ORO editions
Language: English
Pages: 280
Index
Foreword
Design and planning for the age of climate change: context and assumptions
The emerging direction
Revolution of practice
Principles, concepts, and visions
Flux
Productive places
Reconnecting living and consumption
The story of apples and fish: designing for urban productivity
Energy: creating an energy efficient landscape with green roofs
Food: integrating agriculture into landscapes
Water: urban landscapes and water management
Applications
Design and natural systems: design with nature
Design and urban systems: the low-carbon commune
Land: climate change and terrestrial environments
Changing climate and the world’s rivers and wetlands
Coastal design and planning: areas of transition
Urban regeneration and climate change
Creating environments that engage
Urban form and low-carbon buildings
Measuring carbon performance and climate stable practice
Water sensitive cities: a road map for cities’ adaptation to climate and population pressures on urban water
Transit-oriented development: land use and transportation planning in the context of climate change
Economic and planning responses to climate change
Climate: designing a new future
The era of the ecological metropolis
Afterword
Working on the future now
Contributors and sources
Photography and references
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