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The Renewable City: A comprehensive guide to an urban revolution
Peter Droege
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Description for The Renewable City: A comprehensive guide to an urban revolution
Paperback. Frequently the site of crisis or turmoil, individual cities can be fragile environments. For the first time in history, however, the future of the entire urban system is being thrown into doubt. Catastrophic climate changes threaten the life support of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of urban dwellers around the world. Num Pages: 322 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 172 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
Despite the intolerable costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are planned and managed as if such existential crises did not exist. Hence the transition from fossil fuel dominated cities to an urban future marked by a radically new, renewable energy infrastructure requires entirely new tools and frames of decision-making.
Despite the intolerable costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are planned and managed as if such existential crises did not exist. Hence the transition from fossil fuel dominated cities to an urban future marked by a radically new, renewable energy infrastructure requires entirely new tools and frames of decision-making.
This is an original guide to an entirely unprecedented urban transformation, to cities and towns powered by renewable energy. Squarely focused on action, it supports design, planning and management decisions and serves as a practical ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780470019269
SKU
V9780470019269
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Ref
99-50
About Peter Droege
Peter Droege is an expert on the role of renewable energy within the fields of urban design, development and urban infrastructure. He has directed and developed Solar City, a research development effort conducted under the auspices of the International Energy Agency. Droege has performed academic roles at major universities in the United States and Japan, and is presently holding professorial ... Read more
Reviews for The Renewable City: A comprehensive guide to an urban revolution
"Having read many books on the subject of ecological building and sustainable development, it is a refreshing change to read this book." (Building Engineer, June 2007)