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Retrofitting the City

Stefan Bouzarovski

  • Bindwijze: Hardcover
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Mens & Maatschappij
  • ISBN: 9781784531508
Residential Flexibility, Resilience and the Built Environment
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:23 november 2015
Aantal pagina's:269
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Stefan Bouzarovski
Tweede Auteur:Stefan Bouzarovski
Tweede Auteur:Stefan Bouzarovski
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:165 mm
Product hoogte:32 mm
Product lengte:248 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:156 mm
Verpakking hoogte:234 mm
Verpakking lengte:234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:635 g
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:165 mm
Product hoogte:32 mm
Product lengte:248 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:156 mm
Verpakking hoogte:234 mm
Verpakking lengte:234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:635 g

Samenvatting

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet s resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves significant issues of social acceptance and public participation. Retrofitting the City provides an important corrective to the assumptions that have been made concerning the ability of people and places to cope with such residential transformation. Drawing upon case studies from a number of European cities that have undergone far-reaching change in their built environments, the author shows that supposedly inadaptable people and places show a strong, if often hidden, degree of flexibility in responding to economic change and building transformation.