num_pages: 304
description: With over 80 percent of Americans now living in cities and suburbs getting our communities right has never been more important more complicated or more fascinating. Longtime sustainability leader Kaid Benfield shares 25 enlightening and entertaining essays about the wondrous ecology of human settlement and how to make it better for both people and the planet.People Habitat explores topics as diverse as green housing developments that are no such thing the tricky matter of gentrifying inner cities why people dont walk much anymore and the relationship between cities and religion. Written with intellect insight and from-the-heart candor each real-world story in People Habitat will make you see our communities in a new light.
language: English
title: People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities
publisher: People Habitat Communications