Low Carbon Cities - Transforming Urban Systems (Hardcover)

Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities' microclimates. The book explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and individual values, public space, housing affordability, public transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and this book provides key insights.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2015
Editors:	Steffen Lehmann
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	446
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-72982-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	0-415-72982-3
Barcode:	9780415729826

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