Despommier The New City

How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55603-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Despommier, Dickson

Weitere Mitwirkende

Joachim, Mitchell

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword, by Mitchell Joachim
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Pillar One: Carbon Storage
2. Pillar Two: Urban Agriculture
3. Pillar Three: Harvesting Water from the Air
4. Pillar Four: Renewable Energy
5. The New City Imagined
Appendix
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dickson D. Despommier is emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University. His previous books include The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the Twenty-First Century (2010), which popularized the idea of raising crops inside tall buildings; People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders (Columbia, 2013); and Parasitic Diseases (seventh edition, 2019).

Mitchell Joachim is cofounder of the nonprofit architecture and urban design research group Terreform ONE and associate professor of practice at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study.