Ecopolis Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate /

From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population now live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single book which draws together theory from the full range of disciplines� from architecture, planning...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downton, Paul F. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Series:Future City, 1
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8496-6
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Ground Plan
  • 2. An Epistemology for Urban Ecology
  • 3. Architecture, Urbanism and Ecological Perspectives
  • 4. Weavers of Theory
  • 5. The Aesthetics of Ecopolis
  • 6. Finding Fractals: Identifying Elements of the Ecopolis
  • 7. Building Fractals: Ecopolis Projects in Australia
  • 8. Synthesis I: City Ecology
  • 9. Synthesis II: ABC of EcoDevelopment
  • 10. Synthesis III: Education, Advocacy and Activism
  • 11. Synthesis IV: The SHED  Sustainable Human Ecological Development
  • 12. Our Cities, Our Selves.