How do you create inviting and authentic urban environments where people feel at home? Countless community engagement workshops, studies by consulting firms, and downtown revitalization campaigns have attempted to answer this age-old question. In...
Books
177 pages
6 x 9
115 photos
A Citizen's Guide
The farm bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation the American president signs. Negotiated every five to seven years, it has tremendous implications for food production, nutrition assistance, habitat conservation, international...
280 pages
8 x 9
75 illustrations
How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat
Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He...
200 pages
6 x 9
4 illustrations
A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy
With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions is nothing less than urgent. It’s a daunting challenge, but the technologies and strategies to meet it exist today. A small set of energy...
376 pages
6.5 x 8.38
Full color throughout. 60 illustrations
101 Steps to Making Better Places
“Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.” —David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for...
312 pages
8 x 8
120 full-color photos/figures
Healing Our Land and Communities
"Informational and inspirational." —Booklist America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements in our country’s history. People of...
200 pages
6 x 9
The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, 21st-century problems,...
240 pages
6.5 x 8.375
Foundations for Technology, Planning, and Policy
Despite a 2016-18 glut in fossil fuel markets and decade-low fuel prices, the global transformation to sustainable energy is happening. Our ongoing energy challenges and solutions are complex and multidimensional, involving science, technology,...
664 pages
8.5 x 11
Color art
Sustainability in the Global Food System
Mangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: Every day, we are nourished by a global food system that relies on our planet remaining verdant and productive. But current practices are undermining both human and environmental health,...
272 pages
6 x 9
20 illustrations