Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability

TRAMA

The world's burgeoning cities are a critical fact of the 21st Century - and represent one of the greatest challenges to the future. By the year 2050 cities with populations over three million will more than double from 70 today to over 150. The authors in this book claim that contrary to conventional wisdom, that cities distort natural processes, just the opposite is true. Cities are far more than the sinks of energy, vast drains of natural resources, and obstacles to sustainable development. Properly managed, they claim, cities can be transformative arenas in which raw materials may be rationally and economically developed to support people decently, and whole regions sustainably. This volume provides new ideas for managing the mega-cities of our future. The editors' goal is to shape a new way of thinking about mega-cities - one that promotes their function in modern societies as engines of the ideas, technologies, and loci of political will needed to build a new regime of global sustainability.

SOMMARIO

Introduction: Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability.- I. Resource Management on a Regional Scale.- 1. Restructuring Urban Systems.- 2. Scenarios for the Transition to a Second Solar Society: Case Study of a Swiss Lowland Region.- 3. Sustainable Water Management.- II. Urban Activities: Local and Global Impacts.- 4. Brook Revitalization in Zurich: A Multisystems Analysis of Sustainable Development.- 5. Environmental Loading of Resource and Heat Recovery.- 6. Towards Sustainable Urban Transport: Finding Synergies between Lowering Local and Global Impacts.- 7. The Urban Heat Environment and Urban Sustainability.- 8. “Green” Buildings: Private and Public Gains.- III. Developing and Developed Countries: Challenges and Cooperation.- 9. The Sustainability Challenge for Climate Change: Balancing Inter- and Intragenerational Equity.- 10. Megacities and Global Accords.- 11. Research in Partnership with Developing Countries: Application of the Method of Material Flux Analysis in Tunja, Colombia.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781402005404
• Collana: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: VIII, 240 p. 49 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Pagine Arabe: 240
• Pagine Romane: viii