Urban environmental management : environmental change and urban design
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Urban environmental management : environmental change and urban design
Wiley, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text offers planners and urban decision-makers an account of the disturbing dynamics of environmental change. It demonstrates that this new environmental crisis shares its origins with the traditional crises, and that planners - like other decision-makers - are having to take a much longer-term view, placing the urban system in its global and environmental context. The author considers what difference the new environmental crisis makes to urban planning; the key physical functions of the city which react critically with the environment; how poor quality is related to inequity in the city, and why the improvement of one requires the improvement of the other; and how a new Utopian would address the problems of today.
Table of Contents
- The urban environment
- environmental change
- urban metabolism
- urban pathology
- urban impacts on the air
- urban impacts on the ground and water
- the ecological city
- Toronto initiatives.
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