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Elizabeth Burton & Mike Jenks
Achieving Sustainable Urban Form [EPUB ebook]

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Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form – density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality – from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 402 ● ISBN 9781136804793 ● Editor Elizabeth Burton & Mike Jenks ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2720896 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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