Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change: A 21st Century Survival Guide
- ISBN-10
- 0750659114
- ISBN-13
- 9780750659116
- Series
- Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf, David Crichton
Description
In a uniquely frank argument, the book illustrates that the only way we can hope to survive the following century, with our societies intact, is if we begin to radically reduce CO[subscript 2] emissions from our buildings, to stop building climatically disastrous 'modern' buildings and to develop a new generation of 'resilient', regionally appropriate, low-impact buildings, powered by clean, renewable energy, in which we can survive comfortably, in a warming world and in the dark cities of the future."--Jacket.
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