Green New Cities of Tomorrow
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 422
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How can Americans shrink our large carbon footprints to zero? Doing this is necessary if we’re going to mitigate climate change. And how can we do this while making room--and homes—for the seventy million new Americans the Census Bureau says will be here by 2060, and more folks after that? And lastly, how can we start planning to create resettlement communities for the millions of American homes and businesses that will be displaced by sea level rise, in the coming decades and centuries? Half of our states are coastal, and we need to plan. Beyond rising seas and shrinking land, we also need to consider resettlement communities for people driven out by wildfires.
Green New Cities of Tomorrow describes how “green” or sustainable cities will be different from our cities of the industrial age. It does so by turning much of what we know about city development on its head. Water can be done differently, relying much more on rooftop collection and filtration and setting the city on a “sponge” foundation that blots up heavy rains before they can flood the streets. Energy can be done differently, with onsite power supplemented by a renewable power grid, including hydrogen fuel cells. Buildings will be done completely differently, to be energy efficient, created with only sustainable, healthy methods of construction. Food will be grown in these cities using urban hydroponics, a more practical method of growing things as fields become too hot.
The book isn’t just about sustainable building; that’s Part One, and Part Two tackles the multiple issues around how to create places that thrive. Resident involvement, bottom-up management from site selection onward, a budget to support community life, and much more.
These green cities will themselves become think tanks to keep on investigating and testing more sustainable, more community-minded ways of doing things; each will have a technical institute that’s home to these pursuits. And each green city will emphasize creating a thriving economy.
The book’s author, J.F. Rodwell, was born in the UK and educated in economics and urban planning there. Her adult working life has been spent in North America, and she brings to this book many key urban climate solutions from both sides of the “pond.”
J.F. Rodwell was born and educated in economics/urban planning/transportation at Oxford and Glasgow Universities. She emigrated to North America in her 20s. In the early 1990s she became a founding member of the first resident-built cohousing community in North America. She has been a strategic planner from the outset and says: “As a planner by training, experience and temperament, I can see around corners!” Green New Cities of Tomorrow began from the question “What makes some planned communities successful, while others fail?” The climate crisis then broadened the focus to not just planned but green cities.
How can Americans shrink our large carbon footprints to zero? Doing this is necessary if we’re going to mitigate climate change. And how can we do this while making room--and homes—for the seventy million new Americans the Census Bureau says will be here by 2060, and more folks after that? And lastly, how can we start planning to create resettlement communities for the millions of American homes and businesses that will be displaced by sea level rise, in the coming decades and centuries? Half of our states are coastal, and we need to plan. Beyond rising seas and shrinking land, we also need to consider resettlement communities for people driven out by wildfires.
Green New Cities of Tomorrow describes how “green” or sustainable cities will be different from our cities of the industrial age. It does so by turning much of what we know about city development on its head. Water can be done differently, relying much more on rooftop collection and filtration and setting the city on a “sponge” foundation that blots up heavy rains before they can flood the streets. Energy can be done differently, with onsite power supplemented by a renewable power grid, including hydrogen fuel cells. Buildings will be done completely differently, to be energy efficient, created with only sustainable, healthy methods of construction. Food will be grown in these cities using urban hydroponics, a more practical method of growing things as fields become too hot.
The book isn’t just about sustainable building; that’s Part One, and Part Two tackles the multiple issues around how to create places that thrive. Resident involvement, bottom-up management from site selection onward, a budget to support community life, and much more.
These green cities will themselves become think tanks to keep on investigating and testing more sustainable, more community-minded ways of doing things; each will have a technical institute that’s home to these pursuits. And each green city will emphasize creating a thriving economy.
The book’s author, J.F. Rodwell, was born in the UK and educated in economics and urban planning there. Her adult working life has been spent in North America, and she brings to this book many key urban climate solutions from both sides of the “pond.”
J.F. Rodwell was born and educated in economics/urban planning/transportation at Oxford and Glasgow Universities. She emigrated to North America in her 20s. In the early 1990s she became a founding member of the first resident-built cohousing community in North America. She has been a strategic planner from the outset and says: “As a planner by training, experience and temperament, I can see around corners!” Green New Cities of Tomorrow began from the question “What makes some planned communities successful, while others fail?” The climate crisis then broadened the focus to not just planned but green cities.