Statement of responsibility from colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The emerging direction -- Revolution of practice / Joe Brown -- Principles, concepts, and visions / Professor Peter Droege, Curtis Alling, Christopher Benosky [and others] -- Flux / Professor Richard Weller -- Part II: Productive places -- Reconnecting living and consumption / Jon Shrinkfield -- The story of apples and fish : designing for urban productivity / Ichsani Wheeler -- Energy : creating an energy efficient landscape with green roofs / Gary Grant -- Food : integrating agriculture into landscapes / Gary Grant, Isaac Brown -- Water : urban landscapes and water management / Stephane Asselin -- Part III: Applications -- Design and natural systems : design with nature / James Rosenwax, Celeste Morgan, Dr. Courtney Henderson -- Design and urban systems : the low-carbon commune / Christopher Choa -- Land : climate change and terrestrial environments / Isaac Brown -- Changing climates and the world's rivers and wetlands / Karen Appell, Christopher Benosky, Dr. David Gallacher -- Coastal design and planning : areas of transition / Vivian Lee -- Urban regeneration and climate change / Heather Cheesbrough -- Creating environments that engage / Cathryn Chatburn -- Urban form and low-carbon buildings / Lester Partridge Jason Veale -- Measuring carbon performance and climate stable practice / Steve Kellenberg, Honey Walters -- Water sensitive cities : a road map for cities' adaptation to climate and population pressures on urban water / Professor Tony Wong -- Transit-oriented development : land use and transportation planning in the context of climate change / José G. Mantilla, Ann-Marie Mulligan, Damien Pericles -- Economic and planning responses to climate change / Jasmin Abad, Ellen Nunez, Eli N. Pincus [and others] -- Part IV: Climate : designing a new future -- The era of the ecological metropolis / Stephen Engblom, Claire Bonham-Carter -- Part V: Afterword -- Working on the future now / Jason Prior.

"Climate change and dwindling global resources bring with them a set of complex challenges, demanding new design and planning approaches that achieve more with less. Climate: Design, written for designers, architects, planners, policymakers, and academics alike, explores the current paradigm shift and illustrates how new thinking can convert investments in urban infrastructure, land use, and development into resilient and enduring support systems for human and environmental prosperity. Author Peter Droege, an acknowledged expert in the field of renewable, sustainable design, joins forces with pioneering design firm EDAW, to focus on radical solutions and planning measures for combating climate change, and for attempting to adjust to life on a warming planet. The book explores both the current paradigm shift and design and planning practice - and how to apply professional expertise to mitigate the human causes of climate change, and adapt to its already inevitable impacts."--Jacket.