Low Carbon Cities - Transforming Urban Systems

Summary

Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities’ microclimates. The book explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and individual values, public space, housing affordability, public transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and this book provides key insights.

Product details

• Authors: Steffen (University of South Australia) Lehmann
• Assisted by: Steffen Lehmann (Editor), Lehmann Steffen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2014
• EAN: 9780415729833
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72983-3
• No. of pages: 446
• Series: Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, The arts: general issues, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Industrial / commercial art & design, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, City and town planning: architectural aspects, The arts: general topics