Overview
- Considers sustainable cities from a systems thinking perspective
- Provides real-world examples to illustrate the ideas presented
- Draws on the expertise of academics, urban planners and architects
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Architects sustainable cities
- Building Sustainable Cities of the Future
- Building Sustainable Cities of the Future
- Challenge Sustainable Cities of the Future
- Ecological Footprint sustainable cities
- Economy sustainable cities
- Energy sustainable cities
- Environment sustainable cities
- Fundamental Components of Cities
- Infrastructure sustainable cities
- Megacities Sustainable
- Sanitation sustainable cities
- Social equality sustainable cities
- Sustainability targets of cities
- Sustainable Cities of the Future
- Transport sustainable cities
- Urban planners sustainable cities
- Urbanisation sustainable cities
- Whole systems thinking cities
- Whole systems thinking sustainable cities
- landscape/regional and urban planning
About this book
This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future. It addresses this challenge by considering current cities and those of the near future, and creates a picture of the sustainable city from the bottom up.
Individual chapters cover topics such as transport, energy supply, sustainable urbanism and promoting social equality in large infrastructure projects. Real-world examples are presented to illustrate how systems thinking is used to integrate different components of a city so as to ensure that the whole is more sustainable than its parts.
Written in an accessible style, this book is intended for general readers as much as it is for students and researchers interested in sustainable cities and related topics. It is also ideal for urban planners seeking best-practice guidelines for sustainable urban development.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Justin Bishop is a Research Associate in Transport Analysis at the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight and involved in the Energy Efficient Cities Initiative at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. He is also a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit. Formerly, he was a James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Carbon and Energy Reduction in Transport (ICERT).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Sustainable Cities of the Future
Editors: Justin Bishop
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54458-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54456-4Published: 06 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85398-7Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54458-8Published: 28 August 2017
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 194
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Development, Environmental Economics, Environmental Geography, Transportation