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• Title:Sustainable cities : assessing the performance and practice of urban environments / edited by Pierre Laconte, Chris Gossop.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Laconte, Pierre, editor.
  Gossop, Chris, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT166 .S896 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Environmental aspects.
  Sustainable development.
  Urban policy.
  
• Description:xiii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
  
• Series:International library of human geography ; 37.
  
• ISBN:9781784532321 hardback
  1784532320 hardback
  9780857729576 electronic book
  9780857727541 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Levels of Observation
  1. Energy use in buildings: contributions and considerations in urban systems / Kerry J. Mashford
  2. certification of neighbourhoods in Germany: towards sustainable development? / Sebastian Seelig
  3. Assessing the urban environment: the European Green Capital Award and other urban assessments / Birgit Georgi
  4. Bilbao, New York and Suzhou
  a tale of three cities: assessing the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize / Calvin Chua
  pt. II Methodologies/Ways of Thinking
  5. Assessing urban greenhouse gas emissions in European medium and large cities: methodological considerations / Jake Garcia
  6. Ecological footprint analysis: assessing urban sustainability / William E. Rees
  7. evaluation of urban biodiversity / Ulrich Heink
  8. Transforming the psychology of emissions / Michael Braungart
  pt. III Urban Sustainability
  Best Practices
  9. Water and the city: canals and waterfront development as tools for a sustainable post-industrial city
  assessing best practices / Ian Douglas
  10. Assessing sustainable urban transport / Sir Peter Hall
  11. Assessing the Amsterdam Singel canal area for the UNESCO World Heritage listing (2010): heritage and sustainability / Pierre Laconte
  12. King's Cross: assessing the development of a new urban quarter for London / Chris Gossop
  13. Concepts for cities in times of climate change: making an entire city district self-sufficient in heat and power / Kai Dietrich.