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• Title:Handbook of biophilic city planning and design / Timothy Beatley.
  
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• Author/Creator:Beatley, Timothy, 1957- author.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : Island Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT166 .B39275 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Environmental aspects.
  Sustainable development.
  Human ecology.
  
• Description:xx, 289 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.
  
• ISBN:1610916190 (hardback)
  9781610916196 (hardback)
  1610916204 (paperback)
  9781610916202 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 BACKGROUND AND THEORY OF BIOPHILIC CITIES
  ch. 1 Power of Urban Nature: The Essential Benefits of Biophilic Urbanism
  ch. 2 Understanding the Nature of Biophilic Cities
  ch. 3 Urban Nature Diet: The Many Ways That Nature Enhances Urban Life
  ch. 4 Biophilic Cities and Urban Resilience
  pt. 2 CREATING BIOPHILIC CITIES: EMERGING GLOBAL PRACTICE
  ch. 5 Singapore City, Singapore: City in a Garden
  ch. 6 Milwaukee, Wisconsin: From Cream City to Green City
  ch. 7 Wellington, New Zealand: From Town Belt to Blue Belt
  ch. 8 Birmingham, United Kingdom: Health, Nature, and Urban Economy
  ch. 9 Portland, Oregon: Green Streets in a River City
  ch. 10 San Francisco, California: Biophilic City by the Bay
  ch. 11 Oslo, Norway: A City of Fjords and Forests
  ch. 12 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: Nature in the Compact City
  pt. 3 GLOBAL SURVEY OF INNOVATIVE PRACTICE AND PROJECTS
  I. Biophilic Plans and Codes
  II. Citizen Science and Community Engagement
  III. Biophilic Architecture and Design
  IV. Restoring and Reintroducing Nature into the City
  V. Other Biophilic Urban Strategies
  pt. 4 SUCCESSES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
  ch. 13 Lessons from the World's Emerging Biophilic Cities
  ch. 14 Overcoming the Obstacles and Challenges That Remain
  ch. 15 Conclusions: Reimagining Cities of the Future.