Abstract
This second part on building blocks includes this introductory chapter and then 14 chapters in 3 groups. Chapters 6–9 focus on Urban Structures. The dispersion of housing over the city’s surface, localization of different activities in this cityscape and the design of the communications systems can collectively be called the urban structure. Together these factors have a decisive role in urban life, as well as for the environmental load and energy use this life carries with it. Through interaction with the institutional circumstances that regulate housing, activities and communications the urban structure shapes the outer conditions for the daily life of city residents.
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Swedish Energy Agency, Energy in Sweden 2009, (2009).
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Ibid.
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Höjer, M., Gullberg, A., Pettersson, R. (2011). Introduction: Urban Structure, Activity Patterns and Technology. In: Images of the Future City. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0653-8_5
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