Creating sustainable cities / Herbert Girardet.
- Girardet, Herbert
- Date:
- 1999
- Books
About this work
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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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesM30591
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 1870098773
- 9781870098779