Towards a Liveable and Sustainable Urban Environment: Eco-Cities in East Asia

by Gang Chen and Liang Fook Lye

With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of "eco-city" proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced.This book comprises of papers from a workshop organized by the East Asian Institute on Eco-cities in East Asia on 27 February 2009 in Singapore. Contributed by scholars, officials...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9813224797
• ISBN13: 9789813224797
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"