Metropolitan Sustainability : Understanding and Improving the Urban Environment /

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Global populations have grown rapidly in recent decades, leading to ever increasing demands for shelter, resources, energy and utilities. Coupled with the worldwide need to achieve lower impact buildings and conservation of resources, the need to achieve sustainability in urban environments has neve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zeman, Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Woodhead Pub Ltd., 2012.
Colección:Woodhead Publishing in energy ; no. 34.
Temas:
City planning.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Public spaces.
D�eveloppement durable.
Espaces publics.
sustainable development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Metropolitan sustainability : an introduction
  • pt. II. Earth : urban land use and the environmental impact of the built environment
  • pt. III. Wind : urban air pollution and emissions control
  • pt. IV. Water : urban water resources, reuse and management
  • pt. V. Fire : urban energy supply and management
  • pt. VI. Sustainable urban development, transport and planning.

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