Green Community.

Cover -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Funder's Introduction -- Curator's Introduction -- THE GREEN COMMUNITY IN CONTEXT -- The Sustainable City: A Mythical Beast? -- DENSITY AND TRANSPORTATION -- Round, Round, Get Around: Reducing Transportation Burdens in the Green Community -- Introduction to Connectivity -- Creating the Planning and Infrastructure Framework for Mixed Use Mixed Income Transit-Oriented and Urban-Infill Development -- Sustainable Megapolitan: How Large-Scale Urban Development Can Help Green America -- CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION -- Green Communities and the Redefining of Community Wealth -- Finding Common Ground: Historic Preservation and Green Building -- Managing Development to Create Sustainable Communities -- ENERGY AND RESOURCES -- Energy and Communities -- Energy and Community Greening -- The Spillover Effects of Growing Crops for Biofuels -- Green Infrastructure for Blue Urban Watersheds -- Local Sustainable Energy Sources -- LOCAL HEALTH AND GLOBAL HEALTH -- Healthy Communities, Green Communities -- Atlantic Station -- Climate Change and Public Health -- Toward Sitopia -- Food and Community Greening -- The Impact of the Built Environment on Health-The Brain's Stress Response and the Brain-Immune Connection: Implications for Health Care and Urban Design -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits and Permissions -- Index.

The health of our planet and ourselves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings. Green Community brings together diverse experts, each of whom has a unique approach to sustainable planning, design, politics, and construction.

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