Urban development for the 21st century : managing resources and creating infrastructure / edited by Kimberly Etingoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Etingoff, Kim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Sustainable urban development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Urban development for the twenty-first century

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : Apple Academic Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Urban planners around the world are increasingly concerned with creating and maintaining cities that are healthy for both the environment and for individuals. Cities are at the forefront of the trend toward sustainable living, since they are the site of concentrated population, resource use, and greenhouse gas emissions, yet also have the tools and the resources to address climate change and environmental degradation. Part of the modern urban planner's challenge is to impact individual behavior on a systemic, urban scale, since sustainable cities are made up of systems that encourage sustainab

Contents:

Front Cover; About The Editor; Contents; Acknowledgment And How To Cite; List Of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Sustainable Resource Life Cycles; Chapter 1 How Urban Societies Can Adapt To Resource Shortage And Climate Change; Chapter 2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting Of Urban Residential Consumption: A Household Survey Based Approach; Chapter 3 Exploring The Attitudes- Action Gap In Household Resource Consumption: Does "" Environmental Lifestyle"" Segmentation Align With Consumer Behavior?

Chapter 4 Rethinking Waste As A Resource: Insights From A Low- Income Community In Accra, GhanaChapter 5 Challenges To Achieving Sustainable Sanitation In Informal Settlements Of Kigali, Rwanda; Part 2 Sustainable Transportation; Chapter 6 Transport Infrastructure And The Environment: Sustainable Mobility And Urbanism; Chapter 7 Personalized Routing For Multitudes In Smart Cities; Chapter 6 Transport Accessibility Analysis Using Gis: Assessing Sustainable Transport In London; Part 3 Sustainable Housing; Chapter 9 Greenhouse Gas Implications Of Urban Sprawl In The Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Chapter 10 Renewables In Residential Development: An Integrated Gis-based Multicriteria Approach For Decentralized Micro- Renewable Energy Production In New Settlement Development: A Case Study Of The Eastern Metropolitan Area Of Cagliari, Sardinia, ItalyChapter 11 Sustainability Appraisal Of Residential Energy Demand And Supply: A Life Cycle Approach Including Heating, Electricity, Embodied Energy And Mobility; Author Notes; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-18380-1

1-77188-258-1

9780429183805

OCLC:

914301000