Enabling Eco-Cities Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hes, Dominique (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bush, Judy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human geography.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Urban geography.; Sustainable architecture.; Landscape architecture.; Human Geography.; Urbanism.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings.; Landscape Architecture.

Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city. This book features chapters by researchers using regenerative development and transitions theories to envisage how Eco-Cities could be planned, designed and created, a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Introduction: Creating Eco-Cities-From Sustaining to Thriving by Dominique Hes and Judy Bush
• Chapter 2 Regenerative Development and Transitions Thinking by Dominique Hes and Lars Coenen
• Chapter 3Innovation: Creativity as a Renewable Resource for the Eco-City By Tanja Beer, David Curtis and Julie Collins
• Chapter 4 Urban Green Space in the Transition to the Eco-City: Policies, Multifunctionality and Narrative by Judy Bush and Dominique Hes
• Chapter 5 Niches: Small-Scale Interventions or Radical Innovations to Build Up Internal Momentum by Andréanne Doyon
• Chapter 6 Benefit Driven Design Process: An Inclusive and Transdisciplinary Approach Towards Enabling More Resilient and Thriving Outcomes by Angelica Rojas-Gracia
• Chapter 7 The Problem, the Potential, the Future: Creating a Thriving Future by Dominque Hes and Judy Bush.