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Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach book cover

1st Edition

Planning Sustainable Cities An infrastructure-based approach

By Spiro Pollalis Copyright 2016
364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge
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Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems. The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still... Read more

Part 1. Sustainability, Infrastructure and Cities



1. The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure



2. Planning Infrastructure



Part 2. Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Guidelines



3. General Framework



4. Landscape as Infrastructure



5. Transportation Infrastructure



6. Water Infrastructure



7. Energy Infrastructure



8. Solid Waste Infrastructure



9. Information as Infrastructure



10. Food as Infrastructure



Part 3. Examples of Planning with the Guidelines



11. New City in Asia



12. City Expansion in Europe

Biography

Professor Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School. He is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that led to the Envision Rating System. He is the Principal Investigator of the project "Gulf Sustainable Urbanism" for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf, and the chief planner for the new DHA City Karachi.

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