Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Lexington Books
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

A tale of three cities -- The springs of Austin -- The miracle of Curitiba -- The banks of Frankfurt -- Story versus space -- Sustainability and democracy -- Alternative

• Publisher : University of Texas Press
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• Release Date : 01 May 2010

An examination of Austin’s rapid economic and creative growth and local attitudes toward the Texas capitol’s transformation as an urban center. Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the

• Publisher : World Scientific
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

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

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 30 December 2022

This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 39,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 October 2014

Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and contemporary readings giving a broad introduction

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 54,5 Mb
• Release Date : 09 May 2014

Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city. Sustainability, as a concept guiding public action,

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 October 2014

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 14 June 2017

Balanced Perspectives on Different Urban Ecosystems

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 24 February 2017

In response to both policy and conceptual debates, alternative narratives have begun to emerge about territorial governance and policymaking. As local and regional policy actors strive to respond to the

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 24 July 2013

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge