Native to Nowhere (ePub)
Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
(Sprache: Englisch)
Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential elemin the search for solutions to currsustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim Beatley draws...
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Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential elemin the search for solutions to currsustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim Beatley draws on extensive research and travel to communities across North America and Europe to offer a practical examination of the concepts of place and place-building in contemporary life. Tim Beatley reviews the many currchallenges to place, considers trends and factors that have undermined place and place commitments, and discusses in detail a number of innovative ideas and compelling visions for strengthening place. Native to Nowhere brings together a wide range of new ideas and insights about sustainability and community, and introduces readers to a hof innovative projects and initiatives. Native to Nowhere is a compelling source of information and ideas for anyone seeking to resist place homogenization and build upon the unique qualities of their local environmand community.
Autoren-Porträt von Timothy Beatley
Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Departmof Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last eighteen years.His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively in these areas, including the following recbooks: Ethical Land Use; Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth; Natural Hazard Mitigation; and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management.In recyears much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. He is the author of many books, including Biophilic Cities, ResiliCities, and Green Urbanism (Island Press).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Timothy Beatley
- 2005, Englisch
- Verlag: Island Press
- ISBN-10: 1597267740
- ISBN-13: 9781597267748
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.01.2005
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