Sabina Shaikh, Emily Talen

Our Urban Future

An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A workbook that helps students gain both the theory of urban sustainability and a "hands on" understanding of the what, why, and how of sustainable cities"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 254mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780262546843
• ISBN-10: 0262546841
• Artikelnr.: 68431588

Autorenporträt

Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago, where she teaches urban design and directs the Urbanism Lab, and author of Neighborhood, among many other books. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Sabina Shaikh is Senior Instructional Professor in the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization at the University of Chicago, where she is the Director of Academic Programs, and conducts research on environment and migration in Southeast Asia. She is the faculty director of Chicago Studies and the co-lead of the Environmental Frontiers Initiative at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
1 The Sustainable City 1
2 Urban Ecosystem Services 9
3 The Rural-to-Urban Transect 25
4 Green Space 37
5 Density 55
6 Neighborhood Diversity 73
7 Mobility 93
8 Resource Planning in Cities 113
9 Environmental Justice 137
Notes 147
Index 149