Publisher Synopsis: Highlighting successful projects from around the country, this book provides a template for effective natural and human community planning. Integrates local land use planning techniques with large scale thinking to develop plans that protect existing and restore degraded ecosystems… this book helps everyone look at the landscape in relation to multiple values - highest and best use may be more than simply return on investment value. Leading experts in the field provide a detailed how-to for citizen activists, planners, designers, landscape architects, and community leaders.

from Urban Land, June 2006 (http://www.uli.org/AM/Template.cfm?Se...):

It is not necessarily breakthrough discourse when a book discusses the environmental costs of sprawl. However, Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities breaks the mold by discussing methods by which development and conservation can coexist and be mutually beneficial to achieve a productive balance among environmental, social, and economic health...

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