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Building an Emerald City

Author : Lucia Athens
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610911269
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Building an Emerald City written by Lucia Athens and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, Seattle, Washington, became the first U.S. city to officially adopt the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) “Silver” standards for its own major construction projects. In the midst of a municipal building boom, it set new targets for building and remodeling to LEED guidelines. Its first LEED certified project, the Seattle Justice Center, was completed in 2002. The city is now home to one of the highest concentrations of LEED buildings in the world. Building an Emerald City is the story of how Seattle transformed itself into a leader in sustainable “green” building, written by one of the principal figures in that transformation. It is both a personal account—filled with the experiences and insights of an insider—and a guide for anyone who wants to bring about similar changes in any city. It includes “best practice” models from municipalities across the nation, supplemented by the contributions of “guest authors” who offer stories and tips from their own experiences in other cities. Intended as a “roadmap” for policy makers, public officials and representatives, large-scale builders and land developers, and green advocates of every stripe, Building an Emerald City is that rare book—one that is both inspirational and practical.

Emerald City

Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307765199
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Emerald City written by Jennifer Egan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: “Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth.... Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian.... Piercingly tender.... Outstanding" (The New York Times Book Review). These elegant and poignant stories—Egan's first collection—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. The stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.

Emerald Cities

Author : Joan Fitzgerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199759316
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Emerald Cities written by Joan Fitzgerald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. In Emerald Cities, Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global warming, pollution, energy dependence, and social justice. Cities are major sources of pollution but because of their population density, reliance on public transportation, and other factors, Fitzgerald argues that they are uniquely suited to promote and benefit from green economic development. For cities facing worsening budget constraints, investing in high-paying green jobs in renewable energy technology, construction, manufacturing, recycling, and other fields will solve two problems at once, sparking economic growth while at the same time dramatically improving quality of life. Fitzgerald also examines how investing in green research and technology may help to revitalize older industrial cities and offers examples of cities that don't make the top-ten green lists such as Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio and Syracuse, New York. And for cities wishing to emulate those already engaged in developing greener economic practices, Fitzgerald shows which strategies will be most effective according to each city's size, economic history, geography, and other unique circumstances. But cities cannot act alone, and Fitzgerald analyzes the role of state and national government policy in helping cities create the next wave of clean technology growth. Lucid, forward-looking, and guided by a level-headed optimism that clearly distinguishes between genuine progress and exaggerated claims, Emerald Cities points the way toward a sustainable future for the American city.

The Emerald City of Oz

Author : Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerald City of Oz written by Lyman Frank Baum and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy

Vancouver Ltd.

Author : Donald Gutstein
Publisher : Lorimer
ISBN 13 : 9780888620811
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Vancouver Ltd. written by Donald Gutstein and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who owns Vancouver? Who runs the city? How do developers, the corporate businessmen, the lawyers and the politicians relate to each other? This book carefully describes the power structure that made most of the decisions about what happened in Vancouver in the 1960s and early 1970s. Donald Gutstein reveals the tangled web of corporate ownership and influence, family relationships and social contacts that held the Vancouver business establishment together. First published in 1975, Vancouver Ltd. offers an in-depth look at the politics and economics of development in Canada's third-largest city at a crucial time in its history.

Emerald City and Other Stories

Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780334648
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Emerald City and Other Stories written by Jennifer Egan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.

Journey to the Emerald City

Author : Roger Connors
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780735203587
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Emerald City written by Roger Connors and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connors and Smith explore the direct link between a company's culture and the results it produces, providing a program to transform entrenched patterns into potent new ways of being and doing. Getting to the core of why people work as they do is a dynamic process demanding that leaders take control of the culture to create experiences that foster beliefs, drive actions, and produce the ultimate competitive advantage. Filled with success stories, the book introduces a step by step model to help people at any level of the organization take action that will alter the company's belief system in order to produce the desired results.

Emerald Cities

Author : Joan Fitzgerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199741492
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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The Emerald City and Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination

Author : Daniel Willis
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981741
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Emerald City and Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination written by Daniel Willis and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Emerald City, Dan Willis takes us on a flight of imagination that paradoxically never strays far from the most tangible, even intimate subjects. His essays range from the Tower of Babel to the Wizard of Oz, from Christo to Christmas trees, from the "lightness of being" to the "weight of architecture." This ultimately optimistic book suggests that architecture is as vital as ever: "It is tempting to say that our present cultural situation...has rendered architecture nearly impossible if not unnecessary. But it is also possible to look to what our lives, at the turn of the millennium, typically lack-fulfillment, spirituality, a sense of belonging, weight-and to conclude that the ground for architecture has never been more fertile. The texts-intelligent and readable-draw equally from literary sources, architectural practice, philosophical analyses, pop culture, and everyday experiences. Willis's perspective as a writer, architect, artist, and teacher informs his work; his texts are at once reflective and proactive, as they challenge readers to rethink their participation in the built environment. Accompanying the text are the author's original illustrations, which link the forms and forces surrounding architecture at the end of the twentieth century in novel, thought-provoking ways.

Cut and Assemble the Emerald City of Oz

Author : Dick Martin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486240534
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Cut and Assemble the Emerald City of Oz written by Dick Martin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your own fabulous Oz city: Royal Palace of Oz, Emerald City Gates, Emerald City Emporium, Sweet Shop, Blacksmith Shop, Hozpitality House, 8 other structures. Assemble with scissors and glue and let your characters walk down that Yellow Brick Road to fantasy and adventure.

Green Building in Developing Countries

Author : Zhonghua Gou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030246507
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Green Building in Developing Countries written by Zhonghua Gou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals how green buildings are currently being adapted and applied in developing countries. It includes the major developing countries such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Cambodia, Ghana, Nigeria and countries from the Middle East and gathers the insights of respected green building researchers from these areas to map out the developing world’s green building revolution. The book highlights these countries’ contribution to tackling climate change, emphasising the green building benefits and the research behind them. The contributing authors explore how the green building revolution has spread to developing countries and how national governments have initiated their own green building policies and agendas. They also explore how the market has echoed the green building policy, and how a business case for green buildings has been established. In turn, they show how an international set of green building standards, in the form of various techniques and tools, has been incorporated into local building and construction practices. In closing, they demonstrate how the developing world is emerging as a key player for addressing the energy and environmental problems currently facing the world. The book helps developers, designers and policy-makers in governments and green building stakeholders to make better decisions on the basis of global and local conditions. It is also of interest to engineers, designers, facility managers and researchers, as it provides a holistic picture of how the industry is responding to the worldwide call for greener and more sustainable buildings.

Guidelines and Procedures

Author : United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Records Program
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Guidelines and Procedures written by United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Records Program and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World-Builders on World-Building

Author : Mark J.P. Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516010
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book World-Builders on World-Building written by Mark J.P. Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from a distinguished group of world-builders, including academics, writers, and designers, this anthology of essays describes the process and discusses the nature of subcreation and the construction of worlds. From Oz to MUD, Walden to Rockall, all the worlds featured in this volume share one thing in common: they began in someone’s imagination, grew from there, and became worlds built with the assistance of multiple authors and a variety of different ideas and media, including designs, imagery, sound, music, stories, and more. The book examines this development, with examples and discussions pertaining to the process and the final product of the building of imaginary worlds, including some transmedial worlds. World-Builders on World-Building is a fascinating deep dive into the practical problems of world-building as well as its theoretical aspects. It is ideal for students, scholars, and even practitioners interested in media studies, game studies, subcreation studies, franchise studies, transmedia studies, and pop culture.

Sustainable Cities in American Democracy

Author : Carmen Sirianni
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070062998X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Cities in American Democracy written by Carmen Sirianni and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy. Located at the crux of these crises, sustainable cities build on the foundations and resources of democracy to make our increasingly urban world more resilient and just. Sustainable Cities in American Democracy focuses on this effort as it emerged and developed over the past decades in the institutional field of sustainable cities—a vital response to environmental degradation and climate change that is shaped by civic and democratic action. Carmen Sirianni shows how various kinds of civic associations and grassroots mobilizing figure in this story, especially as they began to explicitly link conservation to the future of our democracy and then develop sustainable cities as a democratic project. These organizations are national, local, or multitiered, from the League of Women Voters to the Natural Resources Defense Council to bicycle and watershed associations. Some challenge city government agencies contentiously, while others seek collaboration; many do both at some point. Sirianni uses a range of analytic approaches—from scholarly disciplines, policy design, urban governance, social movements, democratic theory, public administration, and planning—to understand how such diverse civic and professional associations have come to be both an ecology of organizations and a systemic and coherent project. The institutional field of sustainable cities has emerged with some core democratic norms and civic practices but also with many tensions and trade-offs that must be crafted and revised strategically in the face of new opportunities and persistent shortfalls. Sirianni’s account draws ambitious yet pragmatic and hopeful lessons for a “Civic Green New Deal”—a policy design for building sustainable and resilient cities on much more robust foundations in the decades ahead while also addressing democratic deficits in our polarized political culture.

Building the Future

Author : Amy Edmondson
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626564205
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Building the Future written by Amy Edmondson and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about--innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable. This demands "big teaming": intense collaboration across professions and industries that may have completely different mindsets and even be antagonistic to each other. To do this successfully requires practicing new forms of leadership that combine an expansive vision with incremental action--not an easy balance. To reveal how pioneers build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of Living PlanIT, an award-winning "smart city" start-up with a breathtakingly ambitious goal: building a showcase high-tech city from scratch to pilot its software. This meant a joint effort spanning a truly disparate group of software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, construction companies, and technology corporations. We get to know Living PlanIT's leaders and follow them and their partners through cycles of hope, exhaustion, disillusionment, pragmatism, and renewal. There are powerful lessons here for anyone, in any industry, seeking to transform the world.

Visions of the Emerald City

Author : Mark Overmyer-Velazquez
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337904
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Emerald City written by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores how elites and commoners in Oaxaca constructed and experienced the process of modernity during President Porfirio Diaz's government./div

Greening Affordable Housing

Author : Abdullateef Olanrewaju
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351595415
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Greening Affordable Housing written by Abdullateef Olanrewaju and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books on green building theories, principles and strategies applicable to life cycles of all kinds of buildings and building types are already widely available. However, those specifically on greening affordable housing that guide various housing stakeholders at different life cycles are still very limited. This book intends to fill this gap. Integrating green building enables stakeholders to address the environmental component that has not traditionally been seen as an integral part of affordable housing development. The book presents theories and principles with practical methods, strategies and processes not only to make affordable housing green but also to support economic stability and social equity.