{"id":2537,"date":"2018-12-10T07:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeaftercarbon.net\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2018-12-10T07:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:38:53","slug":"urban-transformation-reader-a-holiday-book-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/2018\/12\/urban-transformation-reader-a-holiday-book-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Transformation Reader: A Holiday Book List"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we researched Life After Carbon<\/em>, we relied on a number of terrific books for ideas, examples, and inspiration. Here\u2019s our list, with links to Amazon. Also note that according to our book’s Amazon page, customers who bought our book also bought 12 other books including Designing Climate Solutions<\/em>,\u00a0Walkable City Rules, Drawdown\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Chief Joy Officer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Benjamin Barber, If Mayors Ruled the World<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley, Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Timothy Beatley, Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Brook, A History of Future Cities<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joan DeJean, How Paris Became Paris<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Richard Florida,\u00a0Who\u2019s\u00a0Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Joel Kotkin,\u00a0The City: A Global History<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives through Urban Design<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>William McDonough and Michael Braungart,\u00a0The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability\u2013Designing for Abundance<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Lewis Mumford,\u00a0The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Richard Register, Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in\u00a0Balance with Nature<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Jeremy Rifkin,\u00a0The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is\u00a0Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eric Sanderson, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Wade Shepard,\u00a0Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities Without People in the World\u2019s Most Populated Country<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature\u2019s Role in American History<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Frank Trentmann, Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we researched Life After Carbon, we relied on a number of terrific books for ideas, examples, and inspiration. Here\u2019s our list, with links to Amazon. Also note that according to our book’s Amazon page, customers who bought our book also bought 12 other books including Designing Climate Solutions,\u00a0Walkable City Rules, Drawdown\u00a0and\u00a0Chief Joy Officer. Benjamin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-urban-transformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}