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Explores the nature of human and animal coexistence in cities around the world where the two populations often share habitats, while chronicling the author's own experience transforming his backyard into a wildlife habitat.

This title provides clear direction for urban designers, urban planners, and architects to design cities and developments that are sustainable and reduce environmental harms. The text includes background on sustainability, standards for sustainable urbanism, and case studies of exemplars of sustainable urban design.

"Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from different disciplinary...

Sustainability in America's Cities highlights how the nation's cities are solving conflicts between urban development and the environment, and reducing the impacts of climate change. It presents empirically based, multidisciplinary case studies of sustainability policy, planning, and practice from a geographically diverse group of cities. -- from back cover.

Urban development is one of the leading worldwide threats to conserving biodiversity. In the near future, wildlife management in urban landscapes will be a prominent issue for wildlife professionals. This new edition of Urban Wildlife Management continues the work of its predecessors by providing a comprehensive examination of the issues that increase the need for urban wildlife management, exploring the changing dynamics of the field while giving...

"Reordering the Natural World is a account of the many and varied ways in which animals and humans interact in the urban context. In looking at these interactions, Annabelle Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society contribute to our alienation from the rest of nature. At the same time, however, she reveals the often disguised affinities and sense of connection that urban Canadians nonetheless manifest in their...

The Handbook of Urban Studies provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. [from publisher's advertisement].

"This work is the first transatlantic study to examine the industrial city in holistic terms, looking at the transformation of its land, water, and air. Harold L. Platt demonstrates how the creation of industrial ecologies spurred the reorganization of urban areas into separate spheres, unhealthy slums in the center and garden estates in the suburbs. By comparing Chicago and Manchester, Platt also shows how the ruling classes managed the political...

"Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts...

Los Angeles, the place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and defined by its car-clogged freeways, might seem inhospitable to ideas about connecting with nature and community, but Gottlieb describes how imaginative social movements have coalesced to create a more liveable and sustainable city.