The New City

Auteur
Dickson D. Despommier is emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University. His previous books include The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the Twenty-First Century (2010), which popularized the idea of raising crops inside tall buildings; People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders (Columbia, 2013); and Parasitic Diseases (seventh edition, 2019).

Mitchell Joachim is cofounder of the nonprofit architecture and urban design research group Terreform ONE and associate professor of practice at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Texte du rabat

Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape.

Contenu

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword, by Mitchell Joachim
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Pillar One: Carbon Storage
2. Pillar Two: Urban Agriculture
3. Pillar Three: Harvesting Water from the Air
4. Pillar Four: Renewable Energy
5. The New City Imagined
   Appendix
   Notes
   Index