{"product_id":"9781118387887","title":"Ecosystem Services Come To Town: Greening Cities by Working with Nature","description":"The need to find new approaches to the development of cities is becoming increasingly urgent in this age of continuing population growth, demographic transition, climate change, fossil fuel peak and biodiversity losses. Restoring ecosystem services and promoting biodiversity is essential to sustainable development – even in the built environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcosystem Services come to Town: greening cities by working with nature\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how to make urban environments greener. It starts by explaining how, by mimicking nature and deliberately creating habitats to provide ecosystem services, cities can become more efficient and more pleasant to live in.  The history of cities and city planning is covered with the impacts of industrial urban development described, as well as the contemporary concerns of biodiversity loss, peak oil and climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe later sections offer solutions to the challenges of sustainable urban development by describing and explaining a whole range of approaches and interventions, beginning at the regional scale with strategic green infrastructure, looking at districts and precincts, with trees, parks and rain gardens and ending with single buildings, including with green roofs and living walls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnical enough to be valuable to practitioners but still readable and inspirational, this guide demonstrates to town planners, urban designers, architects, engineers, landscape architects how to make cities more liveable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134454841584,"sku":"9781118387887","price":91.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118387887_p0.jpg?v=1769888378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118387887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}