Eco-City Planning: Policies, Practice and Design

by Tai-Chee Wong and Wong

Book Overview

Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach. Instead, the interdependency of human and non-human species has forced us to appreciate the 'rights' and 'intrinsic values' of non-human species in our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400703821
• ISBN13: 9789400703827
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"