Energy, Planning and Urban Form
Author | : Susan E. Owens |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780850861181 |
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Author | : Susan E. Owens |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780850861181 |
Author | : Peter Droege |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780081020746 |
Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system. This volume is a timely and rich resource for all, as citizens, companies and their communities, from remote villages to megacities and metropolitan regions, rapidly move away from fossil fuel and nuclear power, to renewable energy as civic infrastructure investment, source of revenue and prosperity, and existential resilience strategy.
Author | : Jong Yon Kim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Cities and their characteristics of energy use play an important role in climate change. While there is abundant research about the impact of energy use on transportation the impact of urban form and housing characteristics on residential energy use has not been considered widely. There is certainly a need to take a closer look about the residential energy use and housing relationships to identify planning implications. This study examines the relationship between various urban form, housing characteristics and the energy use that result from residential electricity and fuel use. Ordinary least squares regression methods are used to measure the correlations between energy consumption and variables describing housing and urban form characteristics in the metropolitan statistical areas in the United States. After controlling for differences in energy price and income, a positive relationship between residential energy consumption and a history of greater rates of land conversion was found. This study also finds significantly higher energy use associated with a greater incidence of detached single-family housing when compared against high-rise buildings. A correlation between increased rate of row housing and lower energy use was found as well. This study can contribute to a literature that can help planners to create more environmentally- friendly cities by contributing to the understanding of the impacts that certain energy- related housing characteristics have on the sustainability of a city. The literature regarding smart growth and new urbanism should explore potential impacts on household energy consumption in its discussion of urban planning along with considering impacts on transportation related energy use. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148303
Author | : Elizabeth Burton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 113680479X |
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.
Author | : James Keirstead |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0415529018 |
This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this.
Author | : Dean Hawkes |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-12-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0444601759 |
Energy and Urban Built Form contains the papers that were presented at the International Seminar on Urban Built Form and Energy Analysis, held at Darwin College in Cambridge on June 26 and 27, 1986. The seminar focused on energy use in the built environment at an intermediate scale, between individual buildings and cities, where urban and architectural factors interact. It also covers the simulation and analysis of the performance of groups of buildings, from city blocks and industrial developments to mixed-use urban developments, housing estates, and stocks of buildings such as schools and houses. Organized into four parts encompassing 13 chapters, this volume describes techniques for calculating and minimizing energy consumption in groups of buildings, cities or entire regions. It first provides an overview of mathematical models, as well as approaches to the computation of the energy demand or energy-related properties of housing designs or groups of buildings. It then explores the politics of energy and the built environment, the mechanisms by which technical developments may be translated into effective action, and the energy efficiency of the urban built form. The reader is also introduced to passive solar scenarios for the UK domestic sector, intermediate-scale energy initiatives in the United Kingdom, thermal efficiency of building clusters, and glazed courtyards as an element of the low-energy city. This book is a valuable resource for city planners and engineers, scientists, and anyone interested in energy conservation.
Author | : Sinisa Stankovic |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1136573232 |
Energy security, rising energy prices (oil, gas, electricity), 'peak oil', environmental pollution, nuclear energy, climate change and sustainable living are hot topics across the globe. Meanwhile, abundant and perpetual wind resources offer opportunities, via recent technological developments, to provide part of the solution to address these key issues. The rapid growth of large-scale wind farm installations has now led to the generation of clean electricity for tens of millions of homes around the world. However, despite the potential to reduce the losses and costs associated with transmission and to use local wind acceleration techniques to improve energy yields, the potential for urban wind energy has yet to be realised. Although there is increasing public interest, the uptake of urban wind energy in suitable areas has been slow. This is in part due to a lack of understanding of key issues such as: available wind resources; technology integration; planning processes (include assessment of environmental impacts and public safety due to close proximity to people and property); energy consumption in buildings versus energy production from turbines; economics (including grants, subsidies, maintenance); and the effect of complex urban windscapes on performance. Urban Wind Energy attempts to illuminate these areas, addressing common concerns highlighting pitfalls, offering real world examples and providing a framework to assess viability in energy, environmental and economic terms. It is a comprehensive guide to urban wind energy for architects, engineers, planners, developers, investors, policy-makers, manufacturers and students as well as community organisations and home-owners interested in generating their own clean electricity.
Author | : John Brotchie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351675982 |
This book, first published in 1985, explores the ways in which the editors and contributors predicted the urban system, shaped by emerging technologies, would look like, both nationally and internationally. The technological changes covered include automation in the secondary sector, the effects of energy price rises and threats of shortage, and substitution effects in the energy and vehicle technology areas. Social and economic factors discussed include unemployment patterns, urban activities and lifestyles and their interactions. This title will be of interest to students of urban studies.
Author | : Susan Owens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780907196006 |
Author | : William C. Weber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Energy consumption |
ISBN | : |