“Shifting your city's complexion from gray to green can be fraught with pitfalls. Luckily Lucia Athens is here to provide thoughtful operating instructions, based on real American experiences in building sustainable cities.”
Susan S. Szenasy, editor in chief, Metropolis
“Building an Emerald City is a perfect storm; Lucia is the right person at precisely the right time to provide this guide to creating green building policies and programs. Her experiences working with leading green cities are richly detailed and thoughtfully shared. This is mandatory reading for anyone who cares about our future!”
Bob Berkebile, principal, BNIM Architects
“Cities are in unique positions to address climate change through land use and transportation patterns, and to build sustainable structures. As a local and national founder of the green building movement, Lucia Athens’s guidance on green building is especially useful to all of us involved in city building.”
John Rahaim, planning director, City and County of San Francisco and former planning director, City of Seattle
“We hope others who read this have the opportunity to expand their worldview by stretching and challenging assumptions and conventions as Lucia has.”
From the foreword by Pliny Fisk III and Gail Vittori
