Agile City

In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global-warming -and blunt its effects- by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns.

The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Russell highlights tactics that create multiplier effects, which means that ecologically driven change can shore-up economic opportunity, can make more productive workplaces, and can help revive neglected communities.

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James S. Russell is the architecture columnist for Bloomberg News. He has written about cities, architecture, and environmental design for more than 20 years. As a long-time editor, he helped Architectural Record magazine win a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He has written for numerous newspapers, magazines and books and consulted to environmental organizations, cities, and architects. He teaches at the City College of New York and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

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Acknowledgments

Prologue: Carbon-neutral Now

Introduction: The Concrete Metropolis in a Dynamic Era

Part 1: The Land

1. Climate Change in the Landscapes of Speculation

2. A New Land Ethos

Part 2: Repairing The Dysfunctional Growth Machine

3. Real Estate: Financing Agile Growth

4. Re-engineering Transportation

5. Ending the Water Wars

6. Megaburbs: The Unacknowledged Metropolis

Part 3: Agile Urban Futures

7. Building Adaptive Places

8. Creating Twenty-first-century Community

9. Loose-fit Urbanism

10. Green Grows the Future

Epilogue: Tools to Build Civic Engagement.