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    Creating Sustainable Cities
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    Creating Sustainable Cities

    By Herbert Girardet

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    How can we put the pulsing heart of conviviality back into our cities? How can we make sure of creating cities of diversity for the new millenium: places of cultural vigour and physical beauty that are also sustainable in economic and environmental terms? This Schumacher Briefing shows the way forward.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Books
    Release dateSep 28, 2015
    ISBN9780857843524
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    Creating Sustainable Cities
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    Herbert Girardet

    Prof. Herbert Giradet is an author, consultant and filmmaker. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA), a patron of the Soil Association, and a recipient of a UN Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievements’. In 2003 he was ‘Thinker in Residence’ in Adelaide, developing sustainability strategies for South Australia. He is visiting professor at the University of Northumbria, Middlesex University, and the University of West of England.

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