TY - BOOK ID - 7837181 TI - Creating Green Roadways : Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation AU - Sipes, James L. AU - Sipes, Matthew L. PY - 2013 SN - 1610913582 1597263648 1597263222 PB - Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, DB - UniCat KW - Roads KW - Context sensitive solutions (Transportation) KW - Highway planning KW - Ecological landscape design KW - Traffic safety KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Transportation Engineering KW - Human factors KW - Design and construction KW - Road planning KW - Automobile driving KW - Highway safety KW - Road safety KW - Traffic accidents KW - Ecologically sound landscape design KW - Environmentally sound landscape design KW - CSSs (Context sensitive solutions) KW - Highways KW - Roadways KW - Thoroughfares KW - Planning KW - Safety measures KW - Prevention KW - Environment. KW - Architecture. KW - Landscape architecture. KW - Engineering design. KW - Human geography. KW - Environment, general. KW - Cities, Countries, Regions. KW - Landscape Architecture. KW - Human Geography. KW - Engineering Design. KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Environmental science KW - Science KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Social geography KW - Anthropology KW - Geography KW - Human ecology KW - Design, Engineering KW - Engineering KW - Industrial design KW - Strains and stresses KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Design KW - Horticultural service industry KW - Landscape gardening KW - Landscaping industry KW - Architecture, Primitive KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Ecology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7837181 AB - Roads and parking lots in the United States cover more ground than the entire state of Georgia. And while proponents of sustainable transit often focus on getting people off the roads, they will remain at the heart of our transportation systems for the foreseeable future. In Creating Green Roadways, James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don’t have to be the enemy of sustainability: they can be designed to minimally impact the environment while improving quality of life. The authors examine traditional, utilitarian methods of transportation planning that have resulted in a host of negative impacts: from urban sprawl and congestion to loss of community identity and excess air and water pollution. They offer a better approach—one that blends form and function. Creating Green Roadways covers topics including transportation policy, the basics of green road design, including an examination of complete streets, public involvement, road ecology, and the economics of sustainable roads. Case studies from metropolitan, suburban, and rural transportation projects around the country, along with numerous photographs, illustrate what makes a project successful. The need for this information has never been greater, as more than thirty percent of America’s major roads are in poor or mediocre condition, more than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and congestion in communities of all sizes has never been worse. Creating Green Roadways offers a practical strategy for rethinking how we design, plan, and maintain our transportation infrastructure. ER -