Main entry:

Höjer, Mattias, 1966-

Title & Author:

Images of the future city : time and space for sustainable development / Mattias Höjer, Anders Gullberg, Ronny Pettersson ; Sofia Ahlroth [and others], associate authors.

Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2011.

Description:

xxxi, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translated from Swedish and updated version of: Bilder av framtidsstaden.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I. Points of departure -- The sustainable city -- Limitations and necessities -- Limits of urban sustainability -- Urban tempo and structure -- Part II. Building blocks -- Introduction: urban structure, activity patterns and technology -- Development of urban structures -- Visions and urban structures -- Stockholm's urban development -- Future cities -- possible changes -- Time and consumption -- Housing and other premises -- Food -- Travel -- Durable goods -- Time use in the future -- Production -- Vehicles -- Buildings -- Summary of technical potential -- Part III. Images of the future -- Introduction -- Six images of the future -- introduction and definitions -- Urban cores 2050 -- fast and slow -- Suburban centers -- fast and slow -- Low-rise settlements -- fast and slow -- Measures and possibilities in concentration -- Time use today and in images of the future -- Energy use from the household perspective -- Energy use in 2000 and 2050 -- Part IV. Perspectives -- Suburban and inner city families with children and no car -- Images of the future from a national economic perspective -- The sustainable city: necessary system shifts and their conditions -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: energy use by Stockholm residents distributed over consumption posts according to COICOP and over household functions -- Appendix B: Household functions and time use 1991 and 2001 -- Appendix C: Stockholm county population (1997) according to distance to the nearest track-bound public transport and car/public transport travel time relations -- Appendix D: specification of images of the future
Translated from the Swedish.

Summary:

A complete illustration of what it could be like to live in a city based on sustainable energy use, with Stockholm 2050 as the geographical and temporal setting. This book illustrates life in a city that emphasizes sustainable energy. In it, fourteen researchers offer results from a backcasting study carried out in Stockholm, detailing various aspects of a future sustainable city, such as travel, housing and time use.

ISBN:

9400706529
9789400706521
9789400706538 (e-book)

Subject:

Sustainable urban development.
City planning.
Sustainable development.
Urbanisme durable.
Développement durable.
sustainable development.
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtentwicklung
Sozialer Wandel
Technischer Fortschritt

Added entries:

Gullberg, Anders, 1947-
Pettersson, Ronny.
Ahlroth, Sofia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275982
Call No.: BIB 210488
Status: Available