Retrofitting the City: Residential Flexibility, Resilience and the Built Environment (International Library of Human Geography) - Hardcover

Bouzarovski, Stefan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784531502 ISBN 13: 9781784531508

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2015

Synopsis

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world’s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet’s resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves significant issues of social acceptance and public participation. Retrofitting the City provides an important corrective to the assumptions that have been made concerning the ability of people and places to cope with such residential transformation. Drawing upon case studies from a number of European cities that have undergone far-reaching change in their built environments, the author shows that supposedly inadaptable people and places show a strong, if often hidden, degree of flexibility in responding to economic change and building transformation.

About this title

About the Author:

Stefan Bouzarovski is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Centre for Urban Resilience at the University of Manchester and is a leading international authority on energy and urban policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784531502
• ISBN 13: 9781784531508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288