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Towards a Liveable and Sustainable Urban Environment : Eco-Cities in East Asia.

With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of eco-city proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced. This book comprises of pape...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fook, Lye Liang
Otros Autores: Gang, Chen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of eco-city proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced. This book comprises of papers from a workshop organized by the East Asian Institute on Eco-cities in East Asia on 27 February 2009 in Singapore. Contributed by scholars, officials and environmental specialists from Japan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, the papers focus on how individual governments.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages)
ISBN:9789814287777
9814287776