Greening the Built Environment
eBook - ePub

Greening the Built Environment

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Greening the Built Environment

About this book

This work aims to provide a possible specification of the problems involved in greening the built environment and an articulation of the solutions. It begins with a discussion of sustainability as a concept and its applicability to contemporary towns and cities. The following chapters take up particular aspects of the built environment and sustainability in greater depth and include the construction industry, transport, health, planning, community and equity issues, employment and the economy. The links between environmental damage, poverty and the economy are all themes in this book which also focuses on interconnections and on solutions to these three problems. The final chapter explains how the achievement of sustainable development is, in the authors' opinion, dependent on detailed solutions to everyday problems of modern society.

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Yes, you can access Greening the Built Environment by Maf Smith,John Whitelegg,Nick J. Williams in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Urban Planning & Landscaping. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
INDEX
ABC location policy 114–15
accessibility 87, 95, 100, 116, 130
accessibility rich 91
acidification 16, 112
Agenda 21/Local Agenda 21 17, 31–2, 101, 175, 218, 220, 224–6
aggregates 16, 67–8, 78, 80–1, 102, 197
agricultural land 89, 97, 101–2,204
agriculture 14, 32, 96, 104, 193
airports/aviation/air travel 17–18, 26–8, 95, 105, 111–16, 150, 223
air quality/pollution 14, 25, 28, 74, 87, 91–2, 112, 125–6, 129, 132, 152–3, 157
Almere 93–4
anomie 130, 172
anxiety 132, 154
Appleyard, D 172–3
The Autonomous House 54
banking/Credit Unions 178 ,188–9
Bedfordshire Structure Plan 218–19
Benzene 28, 126
Bethnal Green 162–3, 167
Biodiversity/ecosystems 14, 16–17, 25, 59,91, 101, 113, 140–1,211
Biomass 51, 53
Birmingham 106, 188
Birmingham Northern Relief Road 97, 102–4
Boge, S 102
Broughton Energy Village 2001 53–4
Brown land 100, 184–5, 214–16
Business parks 16, 95–9, 108, 116
Calcutta 20, 22, 26, 33
California 33, 42,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Figures
  6. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  7. 1 What Are We Doing Here?
  8. 2 The Built Environment and Sustainable Development
  9. 3 Energy Intensity in the Built Environment
  10. 4 Materials Intensity in the Built Environment
  11. 5 Transport and Land Use Planning
  12. 6 Health and the Built Environment
  13. 7 Sustainability and Social Equity
  14. 8 Community, Sustainability and the Built Environment
  15. 9 A New Economy and the Built Environment
  16. 10 The Way Forward
  17. References
  18. Index