A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Low-Carbon Urban Infrastructure
Abstract As cities consider how to provide essential urban services in the post-fossil fuel age, they find that incremental strategies are not enough. The challenge, and opportunity, is to reinvent essential city infrastructure—for water, food, shelter, energy, transport, culture, and economy—in a climate-friendly way. By reclaiming human-scale neighborhoods, relearning and further developing sustainable and passive building techniques, and reaching forward with technology in the service of society, cities can thrive with less energy and fewer greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This chapter examines essential concepts and examples of low-carbon urban infrastructure, highlighting urban form designed in harmony with the city’s geography; resilience to climate change impacts as well as reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; and prioritization of demand-side management in city systems, through improved design, efficiency, and de-carbonization.
Low-Carbon Urban Infrastructure
Abstract As cities consider how to provide essential urban services in the post-fossil fuel age, they find that incremental strategies are not enough. The challenge, and opportunity, is to reinvent essential city infrastructure—for water, food, shelter, energy, transport, culture, and economy—in a climate-friendly way. By reclaiming human-scale neighborhoods, relearning and further developing sustainable and passive building techniques, and reaching forward with technology in the service of society, cities can thrive with less energy and fewer greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This chapter examines essential concepts and examples of low-carbon urban infrastructure, highlighting urban form designed in harmony with the city’s geography; resilience to climate change impacts as well as reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; and prioritization of demand-side management in city systems, through improved design, efficiency, and de-carbonization.
Low-Carbon Urban Infrastructure
Ohshita, Stephanie B. (author) / Zhou, Nan (author)
Creating Low Carbon Cities ; 99-111
2017-01-01
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Low-carbon cities , Urban infrastructure , Urban form , Urban resilience , Demand-side management Environment , Sustainable Development , Renewable and Green Energy , Climate Change Management and Policy , Environmental Management , Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning , Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution
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