Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development

by Janis Birkeland

Book Overview

'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities. Positive Development theory holds that development could create more net ecological and social gains than no construction at all. It explains how existing conceptual, physical and institutional structures are inherently biased against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367258560
• ISBN13: 9780367258566
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.6"