| REF: 978 0470019269 | Renewable City A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution | PRICE: R 750.00 |
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| by Peter Droege. Opening with a definition of renewable power, the book concisely sets out the fundamental logic and philosophical framework of the urban energy revolution. It then progresses to look at how cities best attempt adaptation to accelerating, anthropogenic climate change: by mitigating it and fighting its root causes. Two central chapters map the spatial implications of the renewable energy transformation and the new technologies that might be involved in successfully creating the renewable city. |
| REF: 978 3764375584 | Town Spaces - Contemporary Interpretations in Traditional Urbanism | PRICE: R 540.00 |
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| by Rob Krier. Introduction by Michael Graves. Essays by Hans Ibelings, Philipp Meuser and Harald Bodenschatz.In four chapters on new towns, city districts, urban centres and the restructuring of towns and cities, with commentaries by noteable architectural historians and critics, this book develops detailed typologies for urban compostion, including designs and large recent realizations that are characterized by a sense of public spirit, identification and order. |
