Green Community

Susan Piedmont-Palladino is an architect and curator at the National Building Museum. Timothy Mennel is the Senior Editor for the American Planning Association

Green Community is a thoughtful, provocative collection of essays that explore a dizzying range of concepts that are contained in that elusive phrase "green community." These timely essays vitally inform us-poised as we are on the cusp of what will likely be generational changes in our global economy, in how we provide the energy we need, in how we travel, and in our ideas about what constitutes "the good life" in our neighborhoods, towns, cities,and suburbs around the world. -Harriet Tregoning, cofounder and former director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, former secretary of the Maryland Department of Planning, and cofounder of the Smart Growth Network Green Community is a rich, fact-filled, and up-to-date collection of today's critical environmental issues and how to deal with them. It is invaluable. -Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way and Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown Today, more than any time in history, we live in a global economy where quality of place drives the free flow of capital. And as the lines between urban, suburban, and rural challenges blur, from poverty to housing affordability, strong neighborhoods are increasingly becoming a yardstick with which we measure America's success. Green Community is a definitive work on the sustainability challenge, offering us a blueprint for integrated transportation, housing, and land-use development and catalyzing a new generation of metropolitan and rural decision making that builds a geography of opportunity for every American. -Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

• Part 1 The Green Community in Context 1. The Sustainable City: A Mythical Beast? Sir Peter Hall Part 2 Density and Transportation 2. Round, Round, Get Around: Reducing Transportation Burdens in the Green Community F. Kaid Benfield 3. Introduction to Connectivity Fred Hansen 4. Creating the Planning and Infrastructure Framework for Mixed Use Mixed Income Transit-Oriented and Urban-Infill Development Jonathan Rose 5. Sustainable Megapolitan: How Large-Scale Urban Development Can Help Green America Robert E. Lang and Mariela Alfonzo Part 3 Conservation and Preservation 6. Green Communities and the Redefining of Community Wealth Timothy Beatley 7. Finding Common Ground: Historic Preservation and Green Building Richard Moe, with Patrice Frey 8. Managing Development to Create Sustainable Communities Douglas R. Porter, FAICP Part 4 Energy and Resources 9. Energy and Communities William Browning 10. Energy and Community Greening Thomas L. Daniels 11. The Spillover Effects of Growing Crops for Biofuels Scott A. Malcolm and Marcel Aillery 12. Green Infrastructure for Blue Urban Watersheds Mary Rickel Pelletier 13. Local Sustainable Energy Sources Erica Heller, AICP, and Mark Heller, AICP Part 5 Local Health and Global Health 14. Healthy Communities, Green Communities Howard Frumkin 15. Atlantic Station Climate Change and Public Health James A. LaGro Jr. 16. Toward Sitopia Carolyn Steel 17. Food and Community Greening Thomas L. Daniels 18. The Impact of the Built Environment on Healthi? The Braini? Stress Response and the Brain-Immune Connection: Implications for Health Care and Urban Design Esther M. Sternberg Part 6 Conclusion 19. Conclusion Representative Earl Blumenauer