Future cities : dynamics and sustainability / edited by Fred Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, and Peter Baccini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moavenzadeh, Fred, 1935-

Hanaki, Keisuke.

Baccini, P.

Series:

Alliance for global sustainability bookseries ; 1.

Alliance for global sustainability ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Forecasting.

Cities and towns.

Sustainable development.

City planning--Technological innovations.

City planning.

Physical Description:

viii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability / Brantley Liddle, Fred Moavenzadeh 1

I. Resource Management on a Regional Scale

1. Restructuring Urban Systems / Peter Baccini, Susanne Kytzia, Franz Oswald 17

2. Scenarios for the Transition to a Second Solar Society: Case Study of a Swiss Lowland Region / Daniel B. Muller, Hans-Peter Bader, Peter Baccini 45

3. Sustainable Water Management / Toshiya Aramaki 65

II. Urban Activities: Local and Global Impacts

4. Brook Revitalization in Zurich: A Multisystems Analysis of Sustainable Development / Margrit Hugentobler, Susanne Gysi 87

5. Environmental Loading of Resource and Heat Recovery / Keisuke Hanaki 105

6. Towards Sustainable Urban Transport: Finding Synergies between Lowering Local and Global Impacts / Brantley Liddle, Fred Moavenzadeh 131

7. The Urban Heat Environment and Urban Sustainability / Shobhakar Dhakal 149

8. "Green" Buildings: Private and Public Gains / Brantley Liddle, Michael Finch 173

III. Developing and Developed Countries: Challenges and Cooperation

9. The Sustainability Challenge for Climate Change: Balancing Inter- and Intragenerational Equity / Brantley Liddle, Fred Moavenzadeh 195

10. Megacities and Global Accords / Nazli Choucri 215

11. Research in Partnership with Developing Countries: Application of the Method of Material Flux Analysis in Tunja, Colombia / Claudia Binder 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1402005407

OCLC:

49874767