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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change / by Peter Calthorpe
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 著者標目 | *Calthorpe, Peter author SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 出版者 | Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
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| 巻次 | ISBN:9781610910057 |
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| 大きさ | X, 166 p : online resource |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 内容注記 | Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Urbanism and Climate Change 2. The Fifty-year Experiment 3. Toward a Green Urban Future 4. Design for Urbanism 5. The Urban Footprint 6. The Urban Network 7. The California Experiment 8. Four American Futures 9. A Sustainable Future Notes Index |
| 一般注記 | “Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but other critical economies and lifestyle benefits. Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts. In so doing he powerfully demonstrates that it will take an integrated approach of land use transformation, policy changes, and innovative technology to transition to a low carbon economy. To accomplish this Calthorpe synthesizes thirty years of experience, starting with his ground breaking work in sustainable community design in the 1980s following through to his current l |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Environmental sciences LCSH:Architecture LCSH:Urban Ecology LCSH:Climatic changes FREE:Environment FREE:Climate Change FREE:Cities, Countries, Regions FREE:Urbanism FREE:Urban Ecology |
| 分 類 | DC23:577.27 |
| 書誌ID | OB00006668 |
| ISBN | 9781610910057 |
| NCID | LB40010631 |