Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning from Sustainable Communities in Australia

Island Press (2008)

Wendy Natt, Jan 12, 09.

In his recent book, Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning from Sustainable Communities in Australia, sustainability scholar Timothy Beatley – Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia - asks what the US can learn from Australia about creating “green,” sustainable cities. Australia, like America, suffers from air and water pollution, cities built around automobile dependence, and a level of fossil fuel consumption that produces per capita greenhouse gas emissions second only to those in the US. In his travels throughout Australia, Beatley witnessed communities using a wide array of innovative, little-known methods to solve these problems, many of which may have great practical potential for use in US cities.

Peter Newman, professor of sustainability at Curtin University in Western Australia, and author of the Afterword to Green Urbanism Down Under, will talk about a new book he co-authored with Timothy Beatley, Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change at a Houston Tomorrow Distinguished Speaker lecture on January 22, 2009. Copies of Green Urbanism Down Under and Resilient Cities both will be available for purchase, and Dr. Newman will be signing books after the talk. Click here for details about the event.