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The Very Hungry City free pdf file

By: Austin Troy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300162316
EAN: 9780300162318
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Language: English
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Description: As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city`s energy consumption becomes increasinglytied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains for general readers how a city with a high `urban energy metabolism` - that is, a city that needs large amounts of energy in order to function - will be at a competitive disadvantage in the future. He explores why cities have different energymetabolisms and discusses an array of innovative approaches to the problems of expensive energy consumption. Troy looks at dozens of cities and suburbs in Europe and the United States - from Los Angeles to Copenhagen, Denver to the Swedish urban redevelopment project Hammarby Sjostad - to understand the diverse factors that affect their energy use: behaviour, climate, water supply, building quality,transportation, and others. He then assesses some of the most imaginative solutions that cities have proposed, among them green building, energy-efficient neighbourhoods, symbiotic infrastructure, congestion pricing, transit-oriented development, and water conservation. To conclude, the author addresses planning and policy approaches that can bring about change and transform the best ideas into realsolutions.
About the Author
Austin Troy is associate professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, and principal and cofounder of Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, a consulting company that works in the intersection of environment, economics, and spatial analysis. He served four years on the Burlington, VT, Planning Commission.

Handbookof Metropolitan Sustainability free pdf file

By: F. Zeman (Other)
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0857090461
EAN: 97808570904619780857090461
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Description: Global populations have grown rapidly in recent decades, as has thetrend for increasing urbanisation, and higher density urban populations. These trends directly pressurise supply chains and metropolitan services, as demands for shelter, resources, energy and utilities within dense building stock continue to rise. Approaches to metropolitan sustainability have developed out of this situation, the application of which has never been more acute given the worldwideneeds to achieve lower impact buildings and better conservation of resources within productive and dynamic urban environments. This book critically reviews the fundamental issues and applied science, engineering and technology that will enable all cities to achieve a greater level of metropolitan sustainability, and that will assist nations in meeting the needs of their growing urban populations. Thebook initially reviews fundamental issues relating to populations, such as limits to growth and to resources, as well as policy and environmental management approaches to urban environments, and resource supply chain, waste management and land use issue. Further sections review particular elements of the metropolitan sustainability relating to building and infrastructure design and relatedtechnological developments, including climate, air quality and natural lighting, water supply and wastewater treatment, and the application of building-integrated energy systems. The final section reviews urban planning approaches, transportation and communications, and case studies of metropolitan sustainability.
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Part 1 Fundamental issues of sustainability, human population and...