Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Built Environment and Its Supporting Systems -- Defining the Built Environment -- Defining the Supporting Systems -- The Two Fundamental Types of Built Environments -- The Two Fundamental Types of Supporting Systems -- Chapter 2: The Process of Transformation -- Sustainable Plan-Making -- The Plan-Making Steps -- Chapter 3: The Physical Built Environment -- Sustainable Community Commerce -- Building Sustainable Communities: The Ecological Toolkit -- Bioclimatic Building Design -- ACTION Sheets -- A SUSTAINABLE COMMERCIAL FRAMEWORK -- NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER -- GREEN RENOVATION -- ATTAINABLE AND RESILIENT HOUSING -- Chapter 4: The Regulatory Environment -- Sustainability Planning and the Law -- Transforming the Built Environment Through Form-Based Coding -- ACTION Sheets -- LEGAL IMPEDIMENTS SURVEY -- TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS -- THE SMARTCODE -- GHG EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND FORECAST -- Chapter 5: Transportation -- Sustainable Transportation and Transit Planning-Strategies for Comprehensive Regional Transportation Plans and Transit-Oriented Development -- An Incremental Approach: Developing a Long-Term Comprehensive Regional Transportation Plan -- ACTION Sheets -- TRANSPORTATION FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES -- TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT -- SPECTRUM OF CHANGE TOOLS -- PARKING-WHEN LESS IS MORE -- GREEN STREETSCAPES FOR LOCAL STREETS -- MULTIMODAL NETWORK AND CONNECTIVITY PLANNING PROGRAM -- Chapter 6: Energy -- The Energy Shift -- ACTION Sheets -- AWARENESS FOR COMMUNITIES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT -- HOUSING ENERGY PROGRAM -- ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY IN NEW BUILDING DESIGN -- Chapter 7: Water -- Stormwater Management-Light Imprint Development.

Decentralized Wastewater Management -- ACTION Sheets -- REGIONAL WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PLANNING -- Chapter 8: Natural Environment -- Sustainable Landscaping -- ACTION Sheets -- SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING: BUILDING GREEN ASSETS -- PLANT *SF -- DIVERSIFIED CARBON SEQUESTRATION, CELLULOSIC BIOFUELS, AND OILSEED BIODIESEL PROGRAMS -- Chapter 9: Food Production/Agriculture -- Sustainable Food Systems -- ACTION Sheets -- URBAN ORCHARDS -- URBAN AGRICULTURE -- URBAN EDGE AGRICULTURAL PARKS -- Chapter 10: Solid Waste -- Sustainable Materials Management -- ACTION Sheets -- HOME COMPOSTING -- COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RECYCLING: TARGETING THE TOP WASTE PRODUCERS -- GHG EMISSIONS BENEFITS OF RECYCLING AND ORGANICS MANAGEMENT -- Chapter 11: Economics -- Sustainable Economic Development: The Longer View -- A Sustainable Return on Investment -- ACTION Sheets -- DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION -- Chapter 12: Engagement and Education -- Creating and Managing Sustainability for a Municipality -- ACTION Sheets -- GREEN YOUR RIDE -- Chapter 13: Public Health -- Ambient Outdoor Air Quality: Community Health -- A Holistic Public Health Approach -- ACTION Sheets -- CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES THROUGH POLICY CHANGE -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Contributors -- Index.