Resilient Cities

Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Peter Newman, Tim Beatley, and Heather Boyer
Author Bios 


Peter Newman is professor of sustainability at Curtin University in Western Australia. He is the author of Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems (Island Press, 2007) and Sustainability and Cities (Island Press, 1999).

Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia. His books include Green Urbanism Down Under (Island Press, 2008), Green Urbanism (Island Press, 2000), and Ecology of Place (Island Press, 1997).

Heather Boyer is senior editor at Island Press and 2005 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.