Editors:
- Provides a unique reference tool for sustainable urban planning
- Covers issues and methodologies across the field
- Highlights interactions between different elements
- Includes informative case studies
Part of the book series: Research for Development (REDE)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Strategies for Green Planning of Cities and Communities
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Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Urban Planning
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Sustainable Mobility for Cities and Communities
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Rating Systems for Green Planning of Cities and Communities
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The “Smart City” Approach to Improve Urban-Scale Sustainability
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About this book
This book is exceptional in both the breadth of its coverage and its focus on the interactions between different elements. Individual sections focus on strategies and tools for green planning, energy efficiency and sustainability in city planning, sustainable mobility, rating systems, and the smart city approach to improving urban-scale sustainability. The authors draw on their extensive practical experience to provide operational content supplementing the theoretical and methodological elements covered in the text, and each section features informative case studies.
Keywords
- Strategies for green planning
- Energy efficiency
- Sustainable mobility for cities
- Rating sysyems applied to sustainable plannng
- Smart city approach
- Managing of sustainable plannng strategies
- Sustainable planning of cities
- Smart cities
- Sustainability in the city planning
- Sustainability in cities
- urban geography and urbanism
Editors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Giuliano Dall'O'
About the editor
Giuliano Dall'O' is a Full Professor of Building Physics at the Politecnico di Milano (DABC), Milan, Italy, and an expert and consultant in many areas related to energy conservation, energy efficiency, use of renewable energies in buildings, sustainability in the building sector, and the smart city approach. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 technical books and more than 200 technical papers, many of which are Scopus- or WOS-indexed. His publications include the previous Springer book “Green Energy Audit of Buildings: A guide for a sustainable energy audit of buildings.” He is one of the leading authorities, at both the national and European level, on the energy certification of buildings. His areas of expertise include: Energy and Sustainable Planning, Sustainable Energy Action Plans (Covenant of Majors), Energy Certification of Buildings, Energy Audit and Green Energy Audit of Buildings, Zero Energy Building Design, and Smart Cities. Since November 2017, Professor Dall'O' has been President of the Green Building Council Italia, an association that promotes LEED and other certification protocols for buildings and territories (neighborhoods and cities) throughout Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Green Planning for Cities and Communities
Book Subtitle: Novel Incisive Approaches to Sustainability
Editors: Giuliano Dall'O'
Series Title: Research for Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41072-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41071-1Published: 21 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41074-2Published: 21 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41072-8Published: 21 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2198-7300
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7319
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 396
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Development and Sustainability, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)