Dense + Green Cities : : Architecture as Urban Ecosystem / / Thomas Schröpfer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Schröpfer, Thomas,
• MitwirkendeR: Edwards, Peter,; Girot, Christophe,; Menz, Sacha,; Rowe, Peter G.,; Schröpfer, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

High-density ecological architecture

Hochverdichtetes ökologisches Planen und Bauen

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Dense+Green Agendas -- Dense and Green: An Alternative History of the City -- The Collective Power of the Single Building -- Green Spaces and Ecosystem Services -- Green Buildings and the Ecological Picturesque -- Dense+Green Dimensions -- Learning from Singapore -- Dense and Green at the Future Cities Laboratory -- Biodiversity -- Surface Temperature -- Construction and Maintenance Costs of Integrated Green Spaces -- Economic Benefits of Vegetation On and Around Residential Developments -- Dense+Green Case Studies -- Asia -- Solaris -- One Central Park -- Punggol Waterway Terraces I -- The Interlace -- SkyVille@Dawson -- Oasia Hotel Downtown -- 1000 Trees -- Americas -- Vancouver Convention Centre West -- Pérez Art Museum Miami -- Torre Rosewood -- The Spiral -- Miami Produce Center -- 11th Street Bridge Park -- Europe -- Bosco Verticale -- Google King’s Cross -- Valley -- 1Hotel Paris and Slo Living -- Mille Arbres -- Les Lumières Pleyel -- Dense+Green Future -- Future Trajectories -- Appendix -- About the Author and the Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index of Names -- Subject Index