Sustainable urban metabolism /

A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked commun...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Ferrão, Paulo, 1962- (Author), Fernandez, John, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Sustainable urban development.
City planning.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Globalization.
Urbanisme durable.
Écologie urbaine.
Mondialisation.
urban environments.
globalism.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > General.
City planning
Globalization
Sustainable urban development
URBANISM/General
ENVIRONMENT/General
ENGINEERING/General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Urban metabolism: defining a field
  • Industrial ecology: a metaphor for sustainable development
  • Urban metabolism: resource consumption of cities
  • Intellectual foundations and key insights
  • Industrial ecology: a framework
  • Industrial ecology: a framework of tools and practices
  • Industrial ecology tools applied to urban resource management
  • Sustainable urban systems
  • Green urban policies and development
  • Urban typologies: prospects and indicators
  • Complexity and dynamics of urban systems
  • Integrated approaches to sustainable urban metabolism
  • Mapping and assessing urban metabolism
  • Urban metabolism in practice: case studies from the developed world
  • The challenge of urban metabolism in a developing context.

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