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Dreams of disconnection : from the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories / Fanny Lopez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lopez, Fanny, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable living.
- Public utilities.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 319 pages : illustrations (color), maps, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Connection versus disconnection
- 1. Capturing territories through energy distribution
- 2. Being disconnected: genesis of a new technical Utopia
- 3. Toward energy emancipation
- pt. II The energy autonomy movement, 1970-80
- 4. Counterculture radicalism
- 5. Alexander Pike and the Autonomous Housing Project, 1971-79
- 6. The self-sufficient city
- 7. Critical technology: a problematic development
- 8. Electricity micro-grids: a tool for the energy transition?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781526146892
- 1526146894
- OCLC:
- 1246539083
- Publisher Number:
- 99988407349
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