Handbook of Biophilic City Planning and Design - Beatley, Timothy; SpringerLink (Online service) (Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016)
Part I. The Power and Promise of Biophilic Cities -- 1. The Power of Urban Nature: The Essential Benefits of a Biophilic Urbanism -- 2. Placing Biophilic Cities: Planning History, Theory and the New Sustainability -- 3. Urban Trends and Nature Trends: Can the Two Intersect? -- 4. Biophilic Cities: Examining the Metrics and Theory -- Part II. The Practice of Biophilic Urbanism: Cities Leading the Way -- 5. Singapore: City in a Garden -- 6. Wellington, NZ: Nature on the Edge -- 7. Milwaukee: Greening the Rust Belt -- 8. Birmingham: Health, Nature and Urban Regeneration -- 9. Phoenix: The Promise of Biophilia in the Desert -- 10. Portland: Nature in the Compact City -- 11. San Francisco: From Park City to Wild City -- 12. Oslo: The City of Forest and Fjord -- 13. Vitoria-Gasteiz -- 14. Global Survey of Cities: Shorter City Cases and Exemplars -- Part III. Exemplary Tools, Policy Practices -- 15. Detailed Profiles of Biophilic Design Tools Techniques, Design Ideas -- Part IV. Successes and Future Directions -- 16. Biophilic Cities in the Age of Climate Change: Mitigation, Resilience Through Nature -- 17. What Can Be Learned From the Best Biophilic Cities? -- 18. Key Obstacles to Biophilic Cities (And Ways To Overcome Them) -- 19. Conclusions and Future Directions.
Keywords: Environment; Landscape architecture; Sustainable architecture; Environment, general; Landscape Architecture; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings