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Book Review: Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections between Cities and Oceans

For the past couple of decades Timothy Beatley, the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, has traveled the world like a roving journalist and has brought back stories about the efforts of cities to become healthier and more sustainable places. He has collected these stories in a series of influential books, starting with Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities (Beatley 2000) and continuing with books on resilient cities (Newman, Beatley, and Boyer 2009) and biophilic cities (Beatley 2010). In the process, he has become a promoter of new themes in the planning community and, because the books are written for general audiences, a leading voice of the growing movement for sustainable cities. Beatley has the green-urbanist conviction that, at a time of rapid urbanization around the world, cities must reduce their environmental impacts with ecological designs and practices. Indeed, dense cities offer the best hope for meeting human needs with less energy and resource consumption. However, he has noticed that planning for green urbanism typically ignores the 70 percent of the planet covered by oceans. It is as if our maps, physical and mental, do not extend beyond the terrestrial shore. Bridging this gap is the purpose of Beatley’s book, Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections between Cities and Oceans (2014). According to Beatley,