Next Generation Infrastructure - Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works

Informationen zum Autor Hillary Brown! FAIA! is Founding Principal of the firm New Civic Works and Professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Previously! Brown served as Assistant Commissioner of the City of New York! where she was the founding director of New York's Office of Sustainable Design. Brown led publication of the nationally recognised City of New York High Performance Building Guidelines and co-authored High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines. She has served on both the national and New York Chapter Board of Directors for the U.S. Green Building Council and is a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems. Klappentext The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system! and of what many critics see as America's disinvestment in its infrastructure. This book looks at how our infrastructure networks can be made more efficient! less environmentally damaging! and more resilient. Zusammenfassung The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system! and of what many critics see as America's disinvestment in its infrastructure. This book looks at how our infrastructure networks can be made more efficient! less environmentally damaging! and more resilient.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hilary Brown, Hillary Brown, Brown Hillary
• Verlag: Island Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.05.2014
• EAN: 9781610911818
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-181-8
• Seiten: 264
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Stadt-, Raum- und Landschaftsplanung; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects