There exists a category of American cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family...
Books
208 pages
6 x 9
25 illustrations, 15 photos
Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
Can nature—in all its unruly wildness—be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often...
264 pages
8 x 9
Full color, 200 photos, 100 illustrations
How Nature and Culture Shape Our World
Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and...
256 pages
6 x 9
11 photos
Lessons from North of the Border
The headlines about cities celebrating their resurgence—with empty nesters and Millennials alike investing in our urban areas, moving away from car dependence, and demanding walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods. But, in reality,...
312 pages
6 x 9
30 illustrations
A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that Markets and the Environment has become a classic text in environmental studies since its...
328 pages
5.5 x 8.75
30 illustrations
Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World
As managers grapple with the challenges of climate change and volatility in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organization’s resilience—its capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the...
264 pages
6 x 9
34 illustrations
Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man
In New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, 106 Mexican gray wolves may be some of the most monitored wildlife on the planet. Collared, microchipped, and transported by helicopter, the wolves are protected and confined in an attempt to appease ranchers...
320 pages
6 x 9
9 illustrations
Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle, waged...
256 pages
6 x 9
2 photos, 17 illustrations
How to Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure
It's time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth,...
280 pages
6 x 9
2 photos, 23 illustrations