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Designing High-Density Cities : For Social and Environmental Sustainability by Edward Ng is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Designing High-Density Cities : For Social and Environmental Sustainability about?

"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 planners around the world. However, such density creates design challenges and problems. In this book, a collection of experts in each of the related architectural and planning areas examines these environmental and social issues, and argues that high-density cities are a sustainable solution. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in sustainable urban development."--Résumé de l'éditeur

Who reads Designing High-Density Cities : For Social and Environmental Sustainability?

Author

Edward Ng

Publisher

Earthscan Ltd

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282506053

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Science