Spiro Pollalis

Planning Sustainable Cities

An Infrastructure-Based Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability by developing a methodology approaching infrastructure as a series of systems that should function in synergy and be directly linked with urban planning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 222mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138188426
• ISBN-10: 1138188425
• Artikelnr.: 45063014

Autorenporträt

Professor Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School. He is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that led to the Envision Rating System. He is the Principal Investigator of the project "Gulf Sustainable Urbanism" for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf, and the chief planner for the new DHA City Karachi.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Sustainability, Infrastructure and Cities
1. The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure
2. Planning Infrastructure
Part 2. Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Guidelines
3. General Framework
4. Landscape as Infrastructure
5. Transportation Infrastructure
6. Water Infrastructure
7. Energy Infrastructure
8. Solid Waste Infrastructure
9. Information as Infrastructure
10. Food as Infrastructure
Part 3. Examples of Planning with the Guidelines
11. New City in Asia
12. City Expansion in Europe