Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change

Download or read book Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change written by Susan Roaf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a uniquely frank argument, the book illustrates that the only way we can hope to survive the following century, with our societies intact, is if we begin to radically reduce CO[subscript 2] emissions from our buildings, to stop building climatically disastrous 'modern' buildings and to develop a new generation of 'resilient', regionally appropriate, low-impact buildings, powered by clean, renewable energy, in which we can survive comfortably, in a warming world and in the dark cities of the future."--BOOK JACKET.