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 a wildlife corridor, a parking surface 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.
Michael A. Richards completed a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies/Social Sciences and a 3.5-year Master of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Throughout graduate school, Michael’s environmental roots made it difficult for him to succumb to a design philosophy that consumed open space, energy, and natural resources. Rather than change careers, Michael decided to focus on finding a balance between the built and natural environments and concentrated more on land conservation, sustainable landscapes, and community and regional design. His academic thesis, entitled Sustainable Networks, proposed a series of greenways and alternative transport systems throughout the Buffalo-Niagara Region that aimed to rejuvenate natural resources, decrease pollution, conserve energy, create greenspace, and catalyze community development. Since this time, Michael has focused on the principles of environmental, economic, and social sustainability as underlying concepts in his research and publications. Michael has worked in teaching, research, and administrative capacities at several colleges and universities, including the University at Buffalo, the University of Vermont, Buffalo State College, Erie Community College, Vermont Technical College, and the Community College of Vermont. He currently works as a mapping/space specialist at the University of Vermont and provides consulting services to architecture/landscape architecture firms on a contract basis.
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