Sustainable Development and Urban Form
Published on 4. February 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-85086-160-0 (ISBN)
Description
There is widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is desirable. However, a particularly contentious part of the debate concerns the role of cities as consumers of energy and producers of pollution. This text examines the arguments surrounding this question.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Sage Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 159 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85086-160-0 (9780850861600)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Sustainable urban development - the political prospects; sustainable development in a regional system; communications technologies and the future of the city; environmental sustainability and land-use planning; on the sustainability of urban and regional structures; growth regions and the future of Dutch planning doctrine; the contradiction of the compact city - a review; use, transport and settlement patterns; patterns of land use in English towns - implications for energy use and carbon dioxide emissions; city transport - strategies for sustainability; depiction of local sustainability development; towards sustainability - the combined production of heat and power.