{"129461":{"#nid":"129461","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The City and Coming Climate Explores Design-Oriented Strategies to Slow Urban Warming","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost large cities are warming at twice the rate of the planet as a whole. Not only does that mean more discomfort during already warm summer months, but also contributes to heat-related illness and death. In a recently published book, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/knowledge\/isbn\/item6670944\/?site_locale=en_US\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor Brian Stone offers strategies that address climate change at the urban scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvaluating climate change using the boundaries of a city or region is not typical in climate change literature. Furthermore, policy tools for combating localized temperature changes are lacking.\u0026nbsp; Stone\u2019s book will therefore be a much-needed resource for cities interested in working to manage rapidly increasing temperature in the present period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile many cities have developed plans for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, many fewer have developed plans to manage the levels of extreme heat that are already being routinely experienced, which now constitutes the most significant weather-related threat to human health,\u201d Stone shares talking about the influence of this text. \u201cFocused on the scale at which we directly experience climate change, the book should be of interest to planners, policy makers, and anyone who works or lives in an urban environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe book seeks to understand both the drivers and implications of climate change at the scale of cities.\u0026nbsp; Its chief purpose is to understand how land use drives climate change independent of its effects on greenhouse gas emissions.\u0026nbsp; Based on its evidence surrounding temperature change at the scale of the city, the book explores a range of design-oriented strategies cities can use to measurably slow the pace of warming.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live\u003C\/em\u003E (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/home\/home\/item5655304\/?site_locale=en_US\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECambridge University Press\u003C\/a\u003E, 2012) is currently available through the publisher or through \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-City-Coming-Climate-Change\/dp\/1107602580\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAmazon.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.planning.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-stone-jr\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrian Stone\u003C\/a\u003E teaches in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.planning.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning\u003C\/a\u003E in the areas of urban environmental planning, integrated land use and transportation planning, and planning history and theory. Stone\u0027s program of research is focused on the spatial drivers of urban environmental phenomena, with an emphasis on air quality and climate change, and is supported through funding from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other funding institutions. He is Director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"New book by Georgia Tech\u0027s Brian Stone will be a tool for urban planners and policy makers"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew book by Georgia Tech\u2019s Brian Stone will be a tool for urban planners and policy makers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New book by Georgia Tech\u2019s Brian Stone will be a tool for urban planners and policy makers"}],"uid":"27215","created_gmt":"2012-05-09 16:48:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:13","author":"Mike Alberghini","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"129471":{"id":"129471","type":"image","title":"Climate change book cover","body":null,"created":"1449178634","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:37:14","changed":"1475894754","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:54","alt":"Climate change book cover","file":{"fid":"194614","name":"bsj_climate_change_cover_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bsj_climate_change_cover_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bsj_climate_change_cover_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":109905,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bsj_climate_change_cover_0_0.jpg?itok=OdMZVITS"}}},"media_ids":["129471"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1349","name":"Brian Stone"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"33091","name":"urban climate lab"},{"id":"12808","name":"urban heat island"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}