AuthorJenks, Mike
TitleFuture forms and design for sustainable cities / Mike Jenks and Nicola Dempsey
Imprint Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2005
Descript xiii, 444 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Back to the city: A route to urban sustainability / Bob Giddings ... [et al.] -- The intelligent city: Ubiquitous network or humane environment? / Guy Briggs -- Towards the spatial sustainability of city-regions: A comparative study of Tokyo and Randstad / Akiko Okabe -- The multi-modal urban region: A concept to combine environmental and economic goals / Luca Bertolini -- Creating a sustainable city region / Raymond Green -- Forecasting the sustainability of alternative plans: The Cambridge futures experience / Marcial Echenique -- The city and the megatructure / Justyna Karakiewicz -- High-density, high-rise and multiple and intensive land use in Hong Kong: A future city form for the new millenium / Stephen Lau ... [et al.] -- From central business district to new downtown: Designing future sustainable urban forms in Singapore / Perry Pei-Ju Yang -- Towards a sustainable city: Rebuilding lower Manhattan / Beverly Willis -- Upper city transformations: A new strategy for high-density development / Ineke Hulshof -- Sustainable cells of urbanism: Regenerative theory and practice / Tom J. Bartuska and Bashir A. Kazimee -- Sustainable urbanity in a powerful but fragile landscape / Ferdinand S. Johns -- Envisioning the future: Sustainable models for rural communities / Helena Webster and Peter Williams -- The language and meaning of density / Mike Jenks and Nicola Dempsey -- Urban densities, quality of life and local facility accessibility in principal Japanese cities / Kiyonobu Kaido -- Emerging work patterns and their implication on the strategy and planning of work environments / Nicola Gillen -- Solar cities: The Oxford solar initiative / Susan Roaf, Manuel Fuentes and Rajat Gupta -- Quantification of urban solar access / John Mardaljevic -- A comparative sustainability assessment and indication of future housing trends in Hong Kong / Alex Amato, Richard Frewer and Steven Humphrey


SUBJECT

  1. Urban ecology (Sociology)
  2. City planning

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