Eco-city Planning Policies, Practice and Design /
Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introductory chapter
- How cities can enter the ecological age
- Are examples of ecological cities from China, Europe and Singapore useful for developing countries? - Securing cities and their urbanities through ecoinfrastructures, feedback loop urbanisms and networks of zerocarbon settlement
- Cities and eco-tourism for the 21th century
- Down with ECO -towns! Up with ECO-communities or is there a need for model eco-towns?- Eco-cities in China: pearls in the sea of degrading urban environments?- Green urbanism: rejuvenating of mature housing estates in Singapore
- The challenges of sustainable urban development: the case of Iskandar, Malaysia
- Presentation of ecological footprint information: a re-examination
- Towards sustainable architecture: the transformation of the built environment in Istanbul, Turkey
- Urban air quality management: detecting and improving indoor ambient air quality
- Index.
