Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities Galderisi Colucci Paperback Elsevier

Smart, Resilient and Transition CitiesEmerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development\nAuthor(s): Adriana Galderisi, Angela Colucci\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc\nISBN-13: 9780128114773, 978-0128114773\nSynopsis\nSmart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues. Then, the Authors provide an overview of current large-scale and urban strategies to counterbalance climate change so far undertaken in dif.