Designing high-density cities for social and environmental sustainability / edited by Edward Ng.

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其他作者: Ng, Edward
格式: 电子书
语言:English
出版: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2010.
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在线阅读:Click for online access
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总结:Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental improvements that support higher quality of life in cities. Encouraging, even requiring, higher density urban development is a major policy and a central principle of growth management programmes used by pla.
实物描述:1 online resource (xlii, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps
参考书目:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781849774444
1849774447
9781136546013
1136546014
1282506056
9781282506053
9786612506055
6612506059
语言:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.