Synopses & Reviews
Review
"A great treat. This well-researched, clearly presented book is a crisp validation of what my eyes, ears, feet, and heart have been saying to me on my ten year trek working in 2,000 different communities. This book is a great companion for my own journey, as I know it will be for environmentalists and urbanists who need to come together on a common language and knowledge. This book shows the path to a sustainable future."
Review
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Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods, a synthesis of the best ideas about urban planning and greenspace, could not come at a better time. Girling and Kellert provide a blueprint for creatively interweaving gray and green infrastructure, urban design, and the environment. The results are sustainable neighborhoods and green metropolitan regions that artfully preserve nature and create better cities."
About the Author
Cynthia Girling is Director and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia and author of numerous publications and books including Yard, Street, Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (John Wiley and Sons, 1994).
Ronald Kellettand#160;is an architect, Professor of Landscape Architecture, and Director of the Neighborhoods LAB in the Design Centre for Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
Table of Contents
Preface
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Introduction
Growing Compact
Growing Green
Growing Compact and Green
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Chapter 1. Green Neighborhoods
-Defining Green Neighborhoods
-An Example:The Royal Avenue Planand#160;
-Network and Fabricand#151;Green and Gray
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Chapter 2. Case Studiesand#160;
-Overview
-Radburn
-Stapleton
-Playa Vista
-The Beach
-Coffee Creek Center
-Orenco Station
-Heritage Park
-Villebois
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Chapter 3. Green Networks
-Fragmented Systems
-Engaging Landscape Ecologyand#160;
-Green Networks and Formand#160;
-Connecting Region to Neighborhoodand#160;
-Green Networks Strategies
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Chapter 4. Gray Networks
-Gray Networks Impact Pollutionand#160;
-Designing Street Networks
-Hybrid Networks
-Green Streets
-Skinny Streets
-Streets as Civic Amenity
-Gray Networks Strategies
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Chapter 5. Gray Fabric
-Compact Neighborhoods
-Density
-Complete Neighborhoods
-Neighborhood Diversity
-Gray Fabric Strategies
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Chapter 6. Green Fabric
-Urban Forest as Green Infrastructure
-Planting Green Streets
-Defining Neighborhood Space
-Green Fabric Strategies
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Chapter 7. Urban Water
-Sustaining Urban Water
-Stormwater as Civic Amenity
-Linking across Scales
-Whole Water Systems
-Urban Water Strategies
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Chapter 8. Getting to Green Neighborhoods
-Thinking, Seeing, and Knowing "Green"
-Nested Parcels, Districts, Neighborhoods, and Regionsand#160;
-Integrating Compact Green and Gray: Vancouver, British Columbia
-Reflections on Green Neighborhoods
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Notes
Bibliography
Index