“Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell’s proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America.”

On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America’s energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking.