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Emerging Low-Carbon Urban Mega-Projects

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This chapter focuses on the recent trend in some geographical locations (particularly China and the United Arab Emirates) towards building large-scale low-carbon city projects. These low-carbon cities are increasingly being described as mega-projects due to their scale and involvement of large-scale experimental approaches to ways of organizing the low-carbon city. The chapter discusses some of the main trends towards the development of low-carbon eco-city projects since 2000, and then introduces the two main low-carbon city mega-projects currently being developed.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, Devon, UK

    Federico Caprotti

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  1. School of Environment, Resources and Development, and Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand

    Shobhakar Dhakal

  2. School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Matthias Ruth

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Caprotti, F. (2017). Emerging Low-Carbon Urban Mega-Projects. In: Dhakal, S., Ruth, M. (eds) Creating Low Carbon Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49730-3_6

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