Ecopolis Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate /

From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population now live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single book which draws together theory from the full range of disciplines - from architecture, planning...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downton, Paul F. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Future City, 1
Temas:
Applied ecology.
Environmental management.
Architecture.
Environment.
Sociology, Urban.
Applied Ecology.
Environmental Management.
Environmental Sciences.
Urban Sociology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Propositions, Theory and Practice
  • The Ground Plan
  • An Epistemology for Urban Ecology
  • Architecture, Urbanism and Ecological Perspectives
  • Weavers of Theory
  • The Aesthetics of Ecopolis
  • Finding Fractals: Identifying Elements of the Ecocity
  • Building Fractals: Ecopolis Projects in Australia
  • Towards a Theoretical Synthesis
  • Synthesis I: City Ecology
  • Synthesis II: EcoDevelopment
  • Synthesis III: Education, Advocacy and Activism
  • Synthesis IV: The SHED Sustainable Human Ecological Development
  • Our Cities, Our Selves.

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