Creating sustainable cities / Herbert Girardet.

  • Girardet, Herbert
Date:
1999
  • Books

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Description

How can we create cities of diversity for the 21st century - places of cultural vigour and physical beauty that are also economically and environmentally sustainable? This text aims to show the way forward, giving suggestions on recycling, transport planning and the use of urban space.

Publication/Creation

Totnes, Devon : Published by Green Books for the Schumacher Society, 1999.

Physical description

77 pages : black and white illutrations ; 21 cm.

Related material

This item was donated as part of the Godfrey Boyle archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference PP/GBO https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t5pbagvp

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-77).

Contents

1. Urban sustainability : a contradiction in terms? -- 2. Urbanisation and its impacts -- 3. Cities as superorganisms -- 4. Cities and their ecological footprint -- 5. The metabolism of cities -- 6. From urban sprawl to convivial cities -- 7. Prospects for urban farming -- 8. Smart cities and urban best practice -- 10. Principles and policies -- 10. A culture of sustainability.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Godfrey Boyle.

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ISBN

  • 1870098773
  • 9781870098779