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Creating Sustainable Cities (Schumacher Briefings #2)

Creating Sustainable Cities (Schumacher Briefings #2)

Current price: $15.00
Publication Date: August 1st, 1999
Publisher:
Green Books
ISBN:
9781870098779
Pages:
80

Description

How can we put the pulsing heart of conviviality back into our cities? How can we make sure of creating cities of diversity for the new millennium: places of cultural vigour and physical beauty that are also sustainable in economic and environmental terms? This Schumacher Briefing shows the way forward.

About the Author

Prof. Herbert Giradet is an author, consultant and filmmaker. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA), a patron of the Soil Association, and a recipient of a UN Global 500 Award ?for outstanding environmental achievements?. In 2003 he was ?Thinker in Residence? in Adelaide, developing sustainability strategies for South Australia. He is visiting professor at the University of Northumbria, Middlesex University, and the University of West of England.