Planning Sustainable Cities: An Infrastructure-Based Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367669959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 364 str.

Spiro Pollalis

Opis

Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability by developing a methodology approaching infrastructure as a series of systems that should function in synergy and be directly linked with urban planning.

Spis treści

Part 1. Sustainability, Infrastructure and Cities

1. The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure

2. Planning Infrastructure

Part 2. Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Guidelines

3. General Framework

4. Landscape as Infrastructure

5. Transportation Infrastructure

6. Water Infrastructure

7. Energy Infrastructure

8. Solid Waste Infrastructure

9. Information as Infrastructure

10. Food as Infrastructure

Part 3. Examples of Planning with the Guidelines

11. New City in Asia

12. City Expansion in Europe

O autorze

Professor Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School. He is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that led to the Envision Rating System. He is the Principal Investigator of the project "Gulf Sustainable Urbanism" for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf, and the chief planner for the new DHA City Karachi.