Sustaining Cities: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design - Couverture rigide

Leitmann, Josef

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0070383162 ISBN 13 : 9780070383166

Editeur : McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999

Synopsis

This title offers realistic, innovative, in-depth strategies for assessing - and solving, through urban design and planning - the environmental problems that plague the world's cities. It presents proven, practical techniques for dealing with issues such as air quality, urban waste and emissions, brownfields, environmental hazards, and resource depletion. It is required as a reading for urban planners and designers - as well as environmental engineers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Josef Leitmann, Ph.D., is a senior urban planner at the World Bank where he specializes in urban and environmental management. This book was written while he was on leave as a visiting professor of city and regional planning at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Its preparation was enriched by his work on local environmental management with UNCHS/Habitat, the international Union of Local Authorities and the World Wildlife Fund's Turkish affiliate. Leitmann is on the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Urban Environment in The Netherlands. He earned his doctorate in city and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's degree in public policy from Harvard.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0070383162
• ISBN 13: 9780070383166
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible