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Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions by Stephen J. Coyle
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First published January 20, 2011
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June 17, 2016
This is, like most books "built by committee," very much a hit or miss affair. The chapters dealing with waste and transportation were pretty good. I found the other chapters to be pretty lackluster. Too much of the book focuses not on practical steps to be taken to make communities "greener," but to the mechanisms of legal and municipal wrangling surrounding how to get authorization to proceed with green programs.
These sort of tedious details do need to be hammered out in order to acquire authorizations in most communities before one can go through with the kinds of plans outlined in this book, but too much of the text is taken up with this kind of minutiae. Conversely, other portions of the book are too vague and general. Rather than giving specific details on how to plan for certain systems/modes of going green, all we as the public get are recommendations for software programs to download that should help with the task, some of which are prohibitively expensive.
There are some good sections in this book, but for the most part I found it to be a rough, uneven and unrewarding slog. There has to be a better book (or books on the subject). Not recommended for the general reader, although those who already possess some specialized knowledge may find it rewarding.
These sort of tedious details do need to be hammered out in order to acquire authorizations in most communities before one can go through with the kinds of plans outlined in this book, but too much of the text is taken up with this kind of minutiae. Conversely, other portions of the book are too vague and general. Rather than giving specific details on how to plan for certain systems/modes of going green, all we as the public get are recommendations for software programs to download that should help with the task, some of which are prohibitively expensive.
There are some good sections in this book, but for the most part I found it to be a rough, uneven and unrewarding slog. There has to be a better book (or books on the subject). Not recommended for the general reader, although those who already possess some specialized knowledge may find it rewarding.
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