Planning for sustainability / / Stephen M. Wheeler
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| Autore: |
Wheeler Stephen (Stephen Maxwell)
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| Titolo: |
Planning for sustainability / / Stephen M. Wheeler
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (418 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.1/216 |
| Soggetto topico: | City planning - Environmental aspects |
| City planning - Social aspects | |
| Urbanization - Environmental aspects | |
| Community development, Urban | |
| Regional planning - Environmental aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. The nature of sustainability planning -- pt. 2. Issues central to sustainability planning -- pt. 3. Scales of planning -- pt. 4. Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable cities and towns might be created, how local ecosystems can be restored, how social inequalities might be reduced, how greenhouse gas emissions might be lowered, and how more |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Planning for sustainability |
| ISBN: | 0-415-80989-4 |
| 0-203-13455-9 | |
| 1-136-48201-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452595403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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