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Eco-city Planning

Policies, Practice and Design

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Editors:
  1. Tai-Chee Wong

    1. , National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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  2. Belinda Yuen

    1. School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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  • Highlights the eco-city development experience in Asia, notably China, and the United Kingdom, and with reference to European cases
  • Strong planning-orientated
  • Covers eco-city consideration in the area of housing from slum sustainable development in Kenya to high-density, high-rise public housing sustainable development in Singapore

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Understanding the Origins and Evolution of Eco-city Development: An Introduction

    • Tai-Chee Wong, Belinda Yuen
    Pages 1-14

  3. Macro Strategic Planning: Policies and Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. How Cities Can Enter the Ecological Age

      • Peter Head, Debra Lam
      Pages 17-30

    3. Three Ecological Cities, Examples of Different Approaches in Asia and Europe

      • Meine Pieter van Dijk
      Pages 31-50

    4. Eco-infrastructures, Feedback Loop Urbanisms and Network of Independent Zero Carbon Settlements

      • Carlos H. Betancourth
      Pages 51-91

    5. The Relationship of Sustainable Tourism and the Eco-city Concept

      • Scott Dunn, Walter Jamieson
      Pages 93-109

  5. Micro Local Planning: Design and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Presentation of Ecological Footprint Information: A Re-examination

      • Hoong-Chor Chin, Reuben Mingguang Li
      Pages 223-237

    3. Towards Sustainable Architecture: The Transformation of the Built Environment in İstanbul, Turkey

      • Selin Mutdoğan, Tai-Chee Wong
      Pages 239-260

    4. Urban Air Quality Management: Detecting and Improving Indoor Ambient Air Quality

      • T. L. Tan, Gissella B. Lebron
      Pages 261-279

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 281-295
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About this book

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 pursuit for a sustainable ecosystem. This volume has as approach an emphasis on environmental planning policies whereby, for example, energy saving, anti-pollution measures, use of non-car modes, construction of green buildings, safeguarding of nature and natural habitats in urban areas, and use of more renewable resources are promotional norms. Their aims and leading outcome serve to protect the Earth from adverse effects of global warming and different sources of pollution threatening the quality of life of human societies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Tai-Chee Wong

  • School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Belinda Yuen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Eco-city Planning

  • Book Subtitle: Policies, Practice and Design

  • Editors: Tai-Chee Wong, Belinda Yuen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0383-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0382-7Published: 06 May 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9708-6Published: 15 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0383-4Published: 02 May 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 295

  • Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Physical Geography

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