Island Press imprint: 745 books
Making Transit Fun!
How to Entice Motorists from Their Cars (and onto their feet, a bike, or bus)
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Why do people in Stockholm prefer to take the stairs over the escalator? Why do Londoners enjoy hanging out at bus stops? How do carmakers convince us to buy gas-guzzling, environmentally damaging, and wallet-draining machines? It's called the fun theory. What Darrin Nordahl illustrates in this delightful...
by Timothy Beatley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated for their technical services like stormwater reduction, from a biophilic viewpoint, they also facilitate experiences...
Landscape Architecture Theory
An Ecological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
For decades, landscape architecture was driven solely by artistic sensibilities. But in these times of global change, the opportunity to reshape the world comes with a responsibility to consider how it can be resilient, fostering health and vitality for humans and nature. Landscape Architecture Theory...
Building the Cycling City
The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
The world isrediscovering the bicycle as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. The Netherlands has built an accessible cycling culture that cities around the world can learn from.
Chris...
My Kind of Transit
Rethinking Public Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In My Kind of Transit, Darrin Nordahl argues that like life itself, transportation isn't only about the destination, but the journey. Public transit reduces traffic and pollution, yet few of us are willing to get out of our cars and onto subways and buses. But Nordahl demonstrates that when using...
by National Association of City Transportation Officials
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are...
Three Revolutions
Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
For the first timein half a century, real transformative innovations are coming to our world of passenger transportation. The convergence of new shared mobility services with automated and electric vehicles promises to significantly reshape our lives and communities for the better—or for the worse.
The...
Tactical Urbanism
Short-term Action for Long-term Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives—have become a powerful and adaptable new...
Green Cities of Europe
Global Lessons on Green Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In the absence of federal leadership, states and localities are stepping forward to address critical problems like climate change, urban sprawl, and polluted water and air. Making a city fundamentally sustainable is a daunting task, but fortunately, there are dynamic, innovative models outside U.S....
The Future of the Suburban City
Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
There exists a category of American cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almimpossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home, shopping centers, and the automobile. The low-density,...
Reshaping Metropolitan America
Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas, making them more sustainable and livable for future generations. But for this vision to become reality, the planning community needs reliable data about...
Prospects for Resilience
Insights from New York City's Jamaica Bay
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous...
by Daniel Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
"This is a book about the making of cities and the buildings that compose them. It is about the conditions under which an architect engaged in those activities now works, how those conditions evolved and why they are changing. It is about the qualities of life that are threatened by the ways cities...
Biodiversity Planning and Design
Sustainable Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
How do you measure biodiversity, and why should landscape architects and planners care? What are the essential issues, the clearest terminology, and the meffective methods for biodiversity planning and design? How can they play a role in biodiversity conservation in a manner compatible with other...