Transnational Buildings In Local Environments - Couverture rigide

Presas, Luciana Melchert Saguas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754643166 ISBN 13 : 9780754643166

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005

Synopsis

By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting major cities - globalization and ecological and sustainable building design. While such structures tend to be constructed and/or used by transnational companies and are generally viewed as emblems of a 'global city', they nevertheless impact seriously on their local environment, posing numerous environmental burdens on it. By examining office blocks held by multinational firms in Amsterdam, Sao Paolo and Beijing, the book analyses how transnational buildings might be made sustainable. It compares and contrasts the different social mechanisms that are, or may be, in place and how sustainable building practices that are being activated in certain locations could be adopted elsewhere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Luciana Melchert Saguas Presas is the Research Associate for the Environmental Policy Group in the Department of Sciences at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754643166
• ISBN 13: 9780754643166
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible