Titlebook: Building Sustainable Cities of the Future; Justin Bishop Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017 Architects sustainable cities

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Introduction,In 2007, the proportion of the global population living in the urban environment was over 50%.

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A Place for Food Within Sustainable Urban Masterplanning,The production, transportation, consumption and waste of food has been a “puzzling omission” in urban masterplanning (American Planning Association, introduction, .). The need to provide enough food for a growing urban population, which safeguards finite resources and respects the environment, is an urgent challenge.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76956-9that it is more critical for urban areas. Nevertheless we suggest that the provision of energy for urban areas cannot be considered separately from the national context. We will demonstrate how to assess the ability of a nation to invest in energy infrastructure for the benefit of cities. Our approa

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76956-9arbon emissions over their lifecycle. This refers particularly to the selection of fabric energy efficiency measures and onsite low- or zero-carbon technologies (microgeneration or local energy networks) at an early design stage. The research adopts a multiple case study method with data gathered fr

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76956-9us of this chapter is to illustrate and analyse the role that transport can play in facilitating and enabling change. In order to do so, this chapter is compromised of the following four parts: (1) an illustrative description of the transport challenge, which includes describing the impacts that tra

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The Invariant Quasi-free States,t mitigating the negative effects of water in the wrong place, which occur at times of flood arising from extreme weather events. Many urban areas around the world are becoming increasingly water stressed, and cities such as London are developing solutions to address expected future shortages. As we

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7630-8ined with complex economic, social and ecological systems. This is central to the first dimension of equity considered, .. Infrastructures allocate different ‘goods’ spatially, and to population groups therefore to understand the impacts of infrastructures upon distributional equity it is important

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