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Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World

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Questions of how the design of cities can respond to the challenge of climate change dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the U.S. and Canada. With admirable clarity, Patrick Condon responds to these questions. He addresses transportation, housing equity, job distribution, economic development, and ecological systems issues and synthesizes his knowledge and research into a simple-to-understand set of urban design recommendations. No other book so clearly connects the form of our cities to their ecological, economic, and social consequences. No other book takes on this breadth of complex and contentious issues and distills them down to such convincing and practical solutions.

216 pages, Paperback

First published April 23, 2010

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January 5, 2025
Really interesting and lucid analysis of the underlying forces in city design that just lie in plain sight! A tad bit over optimistic but still very inspiring. Genuinely eye opening even as an academic read for class!
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May 20, 2019
very intriguing with a lucid writing style. someone give me a city! I think I will know what to do with it!
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