03338nam a2200397Ia 4500 pucpr 20260122162953.0 141217s2015 enk b 001 0 eng 2014003163 9780415724463 (paperback) 9781315764375 (ebook) pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr eng beag HT241 G537 2015 307.1/216 23 Girardet, Herbert. 102878 Creating Regenerative Cities : Herbert Girardet. txt Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015. vii, 208 p. col. ill. ; 23 cm. rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Index Bibliography Contents: Foreword vi -- Chapter 1 Introduction 1 -- Chapter 2 Agropolis the city in its local landscape 15 -- Chapter 3 Living in Petropolis 25 -- Chapter 4 Petropolis goes global 45 -- Chapter 5 The urban metabolism 67 -- Chapter 6 Ecopolis the regenerative city 95 -- Chapter 7 Case studies part 1 133 -- Chapter 8 Case studies part 2 163 -- Bibliography 195 -- Index 202 -- "Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land surface, their ecological footprints cover the entire globe. With current methods of resources use, cities are undermining the ecological basis of their own existence. To meet the aspirations of city people in developing as well as developed countries, bold new initiatives are needed. Mere 'sustainable development' is not enough. The planning of new cities, as well as the retrofit of existing cities, needs to undergo a profound paradigm shift. Instead of simply using resources more sustainably, cities need to take responsibility for their use of resources, making 'regenerative development' into an organising principle. We need to move away from linear systems of resource use, and assure that cities operate as circular systems. Creating Regenerative Cities is a concise, solution-oriented manual for creating regenerative urbanisation. In our urbanising world a wide range of technical, management and policy solutions already exist, but implementation has been too slow and too little, in large part because the kinds of holistic approaches needed are still unfamiliar to fragmented and process driven urban policy making and governance. Herbert Girardet's 30 year experience as an ecologist, thinker and consultant to cities around the world has created this unique combination of tried and tested best practices and policies with the fundamental shift needed in the way we think about our cities"-- Provided by publisher. Urban ecology (Sociology) 286625 Local POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. bisacsh 265044 Local ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. bisacsh 196845 Local Urban renewal 183432 Local Sustainable architecture 176114 City planning Environmental aspects. 73701 Local Sustainable urban development 281797 lcc 6 1st.ed. HT241 General G537 2015 246474 246474 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2014-05-27 amazon 33.75 530073 1 General HT241 G537 2015 91000000041871 2019-02-20 00:00:00 2019-02-14 1 43.75 0000-00-00 6