ECOLOGICAL URBANISM

While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sust ainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities. Ecological Urbanism, now in an updated second edition with 40 new projects, considers the city with multiple instruments and with a worldview that is fl uid in scale and discipli nary focus...[Llegir més]