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Eco-city Planning Policies, Practice and Design /

Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Wong, Tai-Chee (Editor ), Yuen, Belinda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
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  • Preface
  • Introductory chapter
  • How cities can enter the ecological age
  • Are examples of ecological cities from China, Europe and Singapore useful for developing countries? - Securing cities and their urbanities through ecoinfrastructures, feedback loop urbanisms and networks of zerocarbon settlement
  • Cities and eco-tourism for the 21th century
  • Down with ECO -towns! Up with ECO-communities or is there a need for model eco-towns?- Eco-cities in China: pearls in the sea of degrading urban environments?- Green urbanism: rejuvenating of mature housing estates in Singapore
  • The challenges of sustainable urban development: the case of Iskandar, Malaysia
  • Presentation of ecological footprint information: a re-examination
  • Towards sustainable architecture: the transformation of the built environment in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Urban air quality management: detecting and improving indoor ambient air quality
  • Index.