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Water Centric Sustainable Communities
Novotny, Vladimir; Ahern, John; Brown, Paul; Ahern, Jack
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Description for Water Centric Sustainable Communities
Considered from the perspective of sustainability, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book is the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: RNFD; RNU; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1036.
The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a ... Read more
The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470476086
SKU
V9780470476086
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99-15
About Novotny, Vladimir; Ahern, John; Brown, Paul; Ahern, Jack
Vladimir Novotny is Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and Emeritus Professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also President of AquaNova, LLC. Jack Ahern is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Paul Brown is Executive Vice President at CDM in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is ... Read more
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