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    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
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    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change.Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, ... Read more

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    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    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. The book explores the underlying ... Read more

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    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities. It looks at the socio-climatic implications of density and takes a more holistic approach to sustainable urbanism by understanding the correlations between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the city, and ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Lina

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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  • Urban Regeneration

    A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance. It is a 21st-century manifesto of urban principles compiled by a prominent urbanist, for the regeneration of UK cities, focusing on the ... Read more

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  • Designing for Zero Waste

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