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Understanding Urban Metabolism - A Tool for Urban Planning (Paperback)
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Understanding Urban Metabolism - A Tool for Urban Planning (Paperback)
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Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the
bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the
advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban
design decisions. Urban metabolism considers a city as a system,
and distinguishes between energy and material flows as its
components. Based on research from the BRIDGE project, this book
deals with how the urban surface exchanges and transforms energy,
water, carbon and pollutants in cities. This book also introduces a
new method for evaluating how planning alternatives can modify the
physical flows of urban metabolism components and how environmental
and socioeconomic components interact. The inclusion of
sustainability principles into urban planning provides an
opportunity to place the new knowledge provided by bio-physical
sciences at the centre of the planning process, but there is a
strong need to bridge knowledge and practice, as well as for a
better dissemination of research results and exchange of best
practice. This book meets that need and provides the reader with
the necessary tools to integrate an understanding of urban
metabolism into urban planning practice.
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