Design with the desert : : conservation and sustainable development / / edited by Richard Malloy, [and four others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Malloy, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Boca Raton, FL : : Taylor & Francis,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (620 pages) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: Includes index.

The modern southwestern cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and El Paso occupy lands that once supported rich desert ecosystems. Typical development activities often resulted in scraping these desert lands of an ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and...

Table of Contents

• Introduction.
• Physical Aspects of the Desert Environment: Deserts of the World.
• Geology and Soils in Deserts of the Southwestern United States.
• Scales of Climate in Designing with the Desert. Water Resources in the Desert Southwest.
• Geologic, Hydrologic, and Urban Hazards for Design in Desert Environments.
• The Living Desert: Deep History and Biogeography of La Frontera.
• Vegetation Zones of the Southwest.
• Plant Ecology of the Sonoran Desert Region.
• Wildlife and Anthropogenic Changes in the Arid Southwest.
• Healing the Wounds: An Example from the Sky Islands.
• Built toBurn.
• Restoring Ecosystem Health in Frequent-Fire Forests of the American West.
• Desert Planning: Ecological Planning Method.
• Phoenix as Every City: A Closer Look at Sprawl in the Desert.
• Water Planning for Growing Southwestern Communities.
• Removable and Placed-Based Economies: Alternative Futures for America's Deserts.
• Environmental Injustice in the Urban Southwest: A Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona.
• Dwelling in Expanded Biotic Communities: Steps Toward Reconstructive Postmodern Communities. Dialogue on Development.
• Ecology in Design of Urban Systems: Ecological Design.
• Rainwater Harvesting and Stormwater Reuse for Arid Environments.
• Designing Habitats in Urban Environments.
• Native Plant Salvaging and Reuse in Southwestern Deserts.
• Sustainable Urban Living: Green Solar Energy for Food and Biofuels Production
• Integral Urbanism in Desert Cities: Recapturing Links in Metro Phoenix.
• Urban Sustainability: Settlement, Growth, and Water Security for Southwest Cities
• Creating Tomorrow.
• Desert Vernacular: Green Building and Ecological Design in Scottsdale, Arizona.
• Sustainable Energy Alternatives for the Southwest. Search for a Lean Alternative.
• Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCity™ Approach in the Ciudad Juarez Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex.
• Index.