Landscape

Robert Brown helps us see that a "thermally comfortablemicroclimate" is the very foundation of well-designed andwell-used outdoor places. Brown argues that as we try to minimizehuman-induced changes to the climate and reduce our dependence onfossil fuels—as some areas become warmer, some cooler, somewetter, and some drier, and all become more exp …

Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature—how well they’ve done is both a les …

The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur to anyone who lived before 1800. Over the past 200 years there have been dramatic changes to our cities. With the very best intentions, Baron George Eugène Haussmann ruthlessly transformed Paris in the mid-19th century. Its broad boulevards and grand vistas are the direct result of Hauss …