Low Carbon Cities
Subtitle
Transforming Urban Systems
Edited by Steffen Lehmann
"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.
Bio
David Sailor is a professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, and director of the Urban Climate Research Center. Sailor's scholarly agenda focuses on the intersection of climate with the built environment.
Praise for this book
For too long, the international debate about ‘green’ building has been far too object-focused. That is why 'Low Carbon Cities: Transforming Urban Systems' is of utmost importance.
Ulf Meyer Architecture journalist, Berlin
"Steffen Lehmann has assembled some of the best environmental urban minds in this new anthology that will become essential for all those who are looking for viable and sustainable solutions. 'Low Carbon Cities' might just be the inspiration we need in our efforts to rethink and transform our cities towards the new, ecologically sustainable and resilient future."
Professor Tigran Haas KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
