Green Cities

This book, Green Cities: Modelling Urban Sustainability, exists to explain how planners, engineers and policymakers actually approach this challenge. Cities are extraordinarily complex systems, layering transport networks, energy infrastructure, buildings, water systems, green space and the daily lives of millions of people into a single interconnected whole. Understanding how a change in one part of this system - a new transit line, a rezoning decision, a heat-wave - ripples through the re...