Low Carbon Cities: Transforming Urban Systems, 1st Edition

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 dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and individual values, public space, housing affordability, public transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and this book provides key insights.Low Carbon Cities: Transforming Urban Systems 1st Edition is written by Steffen Lehmann and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Low Carbon Cities are 9781317659136, 1317659139 and the print ISBNs are 9780415729833, 0415729831. Additional ISBNs include 9780415729826, 9781315766003, 9781317659143, 9781322130736, 9781317659129.