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Summary
Summary
Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities' microclimates.nbsp;The booknbsp;explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and individual values, public space, housing affordability, public transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and this book provides key insights.
Author Notes
Steffen Lehmann is Founding Director of the Zero Waste Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour at the University of South Australia. He is a widely published author and scholar, and is Founding Director of the s_Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney-Berlin). A German-born architect and urban designer, he was editor-in-chief (2007-2014) of the US-based Journal of Green Building and an advisor to the Australian and German governments, city councils and industry. Since July 2014 he has been Head of School in the School of Built Environment at Curtin University, Perth.
Table of Contents
List of figures | p. xi |
List of tables | p. xvii |
List of contributors | p. xix |
Acknowledgements | p. xxix |
Foreword: Planning for sustainable and low carbon green cities | p. xxxi |
Preface Holistic approaches to future cities | p. xxxv |
Introduction: Low carbon cities: more than just buildings | p. 1 |
Part I Classic texts on ecologically sustainable cities: conceptual evolutions and different schools of thought | p. 57 |
Introduction to Part I | p. 57 |
1 'Ecopolis': the regenerative city | p. 59 |
2 Much better than climate change adaptation | p. 75 |
3 Imagining biophilic cities | p. 85 |
4 Sustainable cities are solar-responsive cities | p. 97 |
5 Trends in low carbon transport and urban development in 33 cities, 1995/1996 to 2005/2006: some prospects for lower carbon transport | p. 113 |
6 How city dwellers affect their resource hinterland: a spatial impact study of Australian households | p. 131 |
Part II New directions: designing for low carbon cities | p. 149 |
Introduction to Part II | p. 149 |
7 Future ecological design as urbaneering: new positions on city-making without scale | p. 151 |
8 A planning approach for the transformation to low carbon cities | p. 173 |
9 Green districts and carbon engineering: increasing greenery, reducing heat island effects and generating energy | p. 191 |
10 From green buildings to sustainable urban design: two case studies | p. 210 |
11 Urban reclamation and regeneration in Seoul, Republic of Korea | p. 224 |
12 From sustainable to low carbon cities: is India's urban transformation triggering a paradigm shift? | p. 235 |
Part III Urban microclimates: mitsgating urban heat stress | p. 251 |
Introduction to Part III | p. 251 |
13 The urban heal island and Sow carbon cities | p. 253 |
14 A holistic view of the effects of urban heat island mitigation | p. 270 |
15 Urban microclimates: mitigating urban heat | p. 282 |
16 Energy reduction using natural ventilation in city planning | p. 293 |
11 The impact of increasing urban air temperatures on urban planning and building energy consumption in tropical climates | p. 308 |
18 Urban heat islands: case studies from Frankfurt am Main, Anthem and Ho Chi Minh CityLutz Katzschner and Sabrina Campe | |
19 The Green Plot Ratio and the role of greenery in low carbon living | p. 349 |
20 Urban populations' vulnerability to climate extremes: mitigating urban heat through technology and water-sensitive urban design | p. 361 |
21 Multi-seale analysis of surface-layer urban heat island effect in five higher-density precincts of central Sydney | p. 375 |
22 Looking ahead: appliying low carbon principles to shift urban design paradigms in the Asia-Pacific region towards green urbanism | p. 394 |
Glossary of urban terms | p. 422 |
Annotated select bibliography | p. 429 |
Index | p. 433 |