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Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally economically and socially sustain the earth In the past infrastructure and green or park spaces have been regarded as two opposing factors and placed in conflict with one another through irresponsible patterns of development This book attempts to change this paradigm and create a new notion that greenspace parks and infrastructure can indeed be one in the same The case studies will demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low impact development techniques It is quite plausible that a building can be designed that actually creates greenspace or generates energy likewise a roadway can be a park an alley can be a wildlife corridor and a parking surface can be a garden In addition to examining sustainability in the near future the book also explores such alternatives in the distant and very distant future questioning the notion of sustainability in the event of an earth altering cataclysmic disaster The strategies presented in this book aim to stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies architecture and urban design Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and SustainabilityMichael A Richards B. Regreening the Built Environment pdffiller Arch PhD has authored several papers and a book that explore strategies to reverse irresponsible patterns of land use development Although Dream Makers was his first attempt at fiction he has pipe dreams of settling down in a cabin on the lake and becoming a full time fiction writer.S. M.