Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide

✍ Scribed by Zhifeng Yang (Editor)

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2012
Leaves: 607
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

As cities undergo vast changes due to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, environmental considerations assume a growing importance in the urban planning processes of an increasing number of governments around the world. Several cities and regions around the world have already enacted policies that signal the emergence of a paradigm

✦ Table of Contents

Theoretical Bases: Eco-city Planning Theories and Thoughts. Integrated Urban Ecosystem Assessments. Planning of Ecological Spatial System. Planning of Industry System. Planning of Sustainable Energy and Air Pollution Prevention. Urban Water Environment Quality Improvement Plan. Eco-Habitat and Eco-Cultural System Planning. Urban Ecological Planning Regulation. Case Studies: Eco-City Guangzhou Plan. Eco-City Xiamen Plan. Eco-City Baotou Plan. Eco-City Wuyishan Plan. Eco-City Wanzhou Plan. Eco-City Jingdezhen Plan. Assessment of Sustainability for a City by Application of a Work Energy Balance and a Carbon Cycling Model. Index.

✦ Subjects

Earth Sciences;Earth Sciences;Natural Hazards & Risk;Engineering & Technology;Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering;Waste & Recycling;Politics & International Relations;Public Administration & Management

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