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Routledge Designing High-Density Cities by Routledge - Sustainability Book

Name: Designing High-Density Cities by Routledge - Sustainability Book
Brand: Routledge
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Explore the connection between compact living and environmental sustainability with Designing High-Density Cities. This book examines how high-density urban planning can support closer amenities and encourage shorter trip lengths. By promoting the use of public transport, high-density environments help reduce transport energy costs and lower carbon emissions. Learn how density helps control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands while improving the efficiency of urban infrastructure and services. This text provides insights into how higher density urban development serves as a major policy and a central principle of growth management programs. It is an essential resource for understanding how urban design leads to environmental improvements and a higher quality of life in modern cities.

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Examines how high-density living supports closer amenities and reduces trip lengths for urban residents.

Provides insights into reducing transport energy costs and carbon emissions through public transport use.

Discusses methods to control urban sprawl and prevent the spread of suburbs into open lands.

Explains how high-density planning improves the efficiency of urban infrastructure and essential services.

Covers the role of density in environmental improvements that support a higher quality of life.

Explores density as a central principle in growth management and urban policy programs.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1844074609
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Landscape
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 December 2009
Listed Since: 21 April 2008

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