Creating regenerative cities / Herbert Girardet

By:

Girardet, Herbert

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2014. Oxon:Description: viii, 208 pISBN:

9780415724463

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DDC classification:

307.1216 GIR-C

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Agropolis, the city in its local landscape -- ch. 3. Living in Petropolis -- ch. 4. Petropolis goes global -- ch. 5. The urban metabolism -- ch. 6. Ecopolis, the regenerative city -- ch. 7. Case studies, part 1 -- ch. 8. Case studies, part 2.

Summary: "Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land surface, their ecological footprints cover the entire globe. With current methods of resources use, cities are undermining the ecological basis of their own existence

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Library, SPAB D-2	Non Fiction	307.1216 GIR-C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	008399

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Ch. 1. Introduction --
ch. 2. Agropolis, the city in its local landscape --
ch. 3. Living in Petropolis --
ch. 4. Petropolis goes global --
ch. 5. The urban metabolism --
ch. 6. Ecopolis, the regenerative city --
ch. 7. Case studies, part 1 --
ch. 8. Case studies, part 2.

"Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land surface, their ecological footprints cover the entire globe. With current methods of resources use, cities are undermining the ecological basis of their own existence

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