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ReNew town : adaptive urbanism and the low carbon community / Andrew Scott, Eran Ben-Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Andrew, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable urban development--Japan.
- Sustainable urban development.
- City planning--Environmental aspects--Japan.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes.To date, much of the discourse on the design of sustainable communities and 'eco-cities' has been premised on using previously undeveloped land. In contrast, this book and the project it showcases focus on the retrofitting and adaptation of an existing environment - a more common problem, given the extent of the world'
- Contents:
- Sustainable initiatives
- Research in context
- Assumptions
- Concepts
- Tama New Town
- Initial survey : preliminary propositions
- Abstractions : typologies
- Applied prototypes
- Measuring performance : infrastructures
- Site concepts
- Low density prototypes
- Medium density prototypes
- High density prototypes
- Future directions
- Appendix: carbon calculations.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-58030-1
- 1-299-14748-8
- 0-203-15534-3
- 1-136-58031-X
- 9780203155349
- OCLC:
- 827207165
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