Eco-cities and the transition to low carbon economies / Federico Caprotti Senior Lecturer in Cities and Sustainability, King's College London, UK.

By:

Caprotti, Federico, 1980- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Palgrave pivotPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2015.Description: x, 125 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781137298751 (hardback)

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Eco-cities and the transition to low carbon economies.DDC classification:

23 307.76 CAP 007724

LOC classification:

HT241 .C365 2015

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Table of contents

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Eco-Cities in the Age of Crisis 2.Experimental Eco-Cities in China 3.Peak Oil and Eco-Urbanism in Abu Dhabi 4.Conclusion: Re-thinking the Eco-City?.

Summary: Eco-cities are increasingly being marketed as solutions to a range of pressing global concerns, such as environmental and climate change, hyper-urbanization, demographic shifts, energy security, and the Peak Oil scenario. In response to these issues, eco-cities are being conceptualized as 'experimental cities', new urban areas in which new technologies and ways of organizing urban and economic life can be trialled, and where transition pathways towards low-carbon economies can be tested. The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects under construction at the time of writing the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. These are the largest and most notable attempts at building new eco-cities to both face up to the 'crises' of the modern world and to use the city as an engine for transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	307.76 CAP 007724 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		007724

Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-122) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Eco-Cities in the Age of Crisis
2.Experimental Eco-Cities in China
3.Peak Oil and Eco-Urbanism in Abu Dhabi
4.Conclusion: Re-thinking the Eco-City?.

Eco-cities are increasingly being marketed as solutions to a range of pressing global concerns, such as environmental and climate change, hyper-urbanization, demographic shifts, energy security, and the Peak Oil scenario. In response to these issues, eco-cities are being conceptualized as 'experimental cities', new urban areas in which new technologies and ways of organizing urban and economic life can be trialled, and where transition pathways towards low-carbon economies can be tested. The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects under construction at the time of writing the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. These are the largest and most notable attempts at building new eco-cities to both face up to the 'crises' of the modern world and to use the city as an engine for transition to a low-carbon economy.

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