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1 online resource |
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Earthscan series on sustainable design |
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Earthscan series on sustainable design.
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| Contents |
Foreword. Planning for sustainable and low carbon green cities / Donovan Storey and K.K. Philip Kang-- Preface. Holistic approaches to future cities / Joo-Hwa (Philip) Bay -- Introduction. Low carbon cities : more than just buildings / Steffen Lehmann-- Part I. Classic texts on ecologically sustainable cities : conceptual evolutions and different schools of thought. 1. Ecopolis : the regenerative city / Herbert Girardet-- 2. Much better than climate change adaptation / Richard Register-- 3. Imagining biophilic cities / Tim Beatley-- 4. Sustainable cities are solar responsive cities / Norbert Lechner-- 5. Trends in low carbon transport and urban development in 33 cities, 1995/1996 to 2005/2006 / Jeff Kenworthy-- 6. How city dwellers affect their resource hinterland : a spatial impact study of Australian households / Manfred Lenzen and Greg M. Peters-- Part II: New directions: designing for low carbon cities. -- 7. Future ecological design as urbaneering: new positions on city-making without scale / Mitchell Joachim-- 8. A planning approach for the transformation to low carbon cities / Nico Tillie, Andy van den Dobbelsteen and Sebastian Carney-- 9. Green districts and carbon engineering : increasing greenery, reducing heat island effects and generating energy / Steffen Lehmann-- 10. From green buildings to sustainable urban design : two case studies / Christoph Ingenhoven, Martin Reuter and Ban Dieckmann-- 11. Urban reclamation and regeneration in Seoul, Republic of Korea / Robert Cervero-- 12. From sustainable to low carbon cities : is India's urban transformation triggering a paradigm shift? Shipra Narang Suri-- Part III: Urban microclimates : mitigating urban heat stress.-- 13. The urban heat island and low carbon cities / Gerald Mills-- 14. A holistic view of the effects of urban heat island mitigation / David J. Sailor-- 15. Urban microclimates : mitigating urban heat stress / Matheos Santamouris and Dionysia-Denia Kolokotsa-- 16. Energy reduction using natural ventilation in city planning / Yukiko Yoshida and Toshiaki Ichinose-- 17. The impact of increasing urban air temperatures on urban planning and building energy consumption in tropical climates / Steve Kardinal Jusuf, Nyuk Hien Wong and Zhun Min Adrian Chong-- 18. Urban heat islands : case studies from Frankfurt am Main, Arnhem and Ho Chi Minh City / Lutz Katzschner and Sabrina Campe-- 19. The Green Plot Ratio and the role of greenery in low carbon living / Boon Lay Ong-- 20. Urban populations' vulnerability to climate extremes : mitigating urban heat through technology and water-sensitive urban design / Nigel Tapper, Andrew Coutts, Margaret Loughnan and Devna Pankhania-- 21. Multi-scale analysis of surface-layer urban heat island effect in five higher-density precincts of central Sydney / Ehsan Sharifi, Conrad Philipp and Steffen Lehmann-- 22. Looking ahead : applying low carbon principles to shift urban design paradigms in the Asia-Pacific region towards green urbanism/ Steffen Lehmann and Katharine Thornton |
| Summary |
This 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Climatic changes
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Sustainable design.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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climate change.
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sustainable architecture.
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urban environments.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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Carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Climatic changes
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Sustainable design
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317659147 |
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9781317659143 |
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9781317659136 |
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1317659139 |
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1317659120 |
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9781317659129 |
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9781315766003 |
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1315766000 |
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