Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities Audiobook (Free)

The future of our cities isn’t what it used to be. The modern-city model that got hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot resolve the problems it helped to generate—specifically global warming. Thankfully, a fresh model for metropolitan development is growing in metropolitan areas to aggressively tackle the realities of weather modification. It transforms the way cities design and use physical space, create economic prosperity, consume and get rid of assets, exploit and maintain the about Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities organic ecosystems, and prepare for the future.

In Lifestyle After Carbon, metropolitan sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global design of urban reinvention through the stories of 25 ‘innovation lab’ cities across the globe—from Copenhagen to Melbourne. A town innovation lab may be the entire city—the complex, messy, real urban world where enhancements must work. It really is a city in which federal government, business, and community leaders take to center the task of climate transformation and converge over the radical changes that are essential. They free of charge downtowns from cars, turn structures into renewable-energy power plant life, re-nature entire neighborhoods, incubate growing amounts of clean-energy and smart-tech businesses, convert waste materials to energy, plus much more. Plastrik and Cleveland present that four transformational suggestions are driving metropolitan climate innovation all over the world, in practice, not just in theory: carbon-free advantage, efficient plethora, nature’s benefits, and adaptive futures. And these ideas are thriving in markets, occupations, consumer trends, community movements, and ‘higher’ degrees of authorities that enable metropolitan areas.

Life After Carbon presents the brand new ideas that are replacing the pillars from the modern-city model, converting climate devastation into urban chance, and shaping the next transformation of towns worldwide. It’ll inspire anyone who cares about the future of our cities, and help them to map a sustainable path forward.