Ecopolis Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Downton, Paul F. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Σειρά: Future City, 1
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Architecture.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Applied ecology.; Climate change.; Environmental management.; Life Sciences.; Applied Ecology.; Environmental Management.; Architecture, general.; Climate Change.; Urbanism.

From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population now live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single book which draws together theory from the full range of disciplines – from architecture, planning...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Propositions, Theory and Practice
• The Ground Plan
• An Epistemology for Urban Ecology
• Architecture, Urbanism and Ecological Perspectives
• Weavers of Theory
• The Aesthetics of Ecopolis
• Finding Fractals: Identifying Elements of the Ecocity
• Building Fractals: Ecopolis Projects in Australia
• Towards a Theoretical Synthesis
• Synthesis I: City Ecology
• Synthesis II: EcoDevelopment
• Synthesis III: Education, Advocacy and Activism
• Synthesis IV: The SHED Sustainable Human Ecological Development
• Our Cities, Our Selves.