City Fights: Debates on Urban Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781902916170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 136 str.

Mark Hewitt; Susannah Hagan

Opis

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon. To some, the term encompasses innovation, change and commitment to the future and to others it means preservation, conservatism and a watchful eye on the future. This title follows on from the symposium 'Energy and Urban Strategies'.

Spis treści

Introduction * Theme 1 City and Culture: Overviews of Sustainability - The City in the Post-Industrial Information Society: Transforming from a Place of Production to a Place of Consumption * Picture This: Conceptual Models and Sustainable Cities * from Object to Procedure * Theme 1 Discussion * Theme 1 Response * Theme 2 Politics and Planning: Winning Hearts and Minds - Mission Impossible: Politics and the Production of Urban Space * Car-sharing in Switzerland: a Case Study * Theme 2 Discussion * Theme 2 Response * Theme 3 Testing and Modelling. The Metabolism of Cities - The City as Natural Form: Models of Urban Microclimates * Energy and Environmental Quality in the Urban Built Environment * Theme 3 Discussion * Theme 4 Synthesis and Shape: Designs on the City - Hidden Technologies * Emerging City Shapes: Energy at the Urban Scale * Theme 4 Discussion * Theme 4 Response * Participants in Discussion Texts