Xeritown, Dubai : Xeritown, an extension of Dubai toward the inland desert, takes the desert and local climate as a context from which the urban form emerges by working with the natural environment. The planning for the 59-hectare, mixed-use development applies sustainable principles

Lignende værker

• Xeritown : Vernakuläre Prinzipien
  Udgivet: (2010)
• Biocity : Emergent Sustainability
  af: McGregor, Adrian
  Udgivet: (2010)
• The Carbon Landscape : Using the free market to fight climate change
  af: Pocock, Craig
  Udgivet: (2010)
• The Sustainable Sites Initiative : The Sustainable Sites initiative (SITES) is an eneavor to create the first perfomance-based rating system for the development, maintenance, and regeneration of landscape project.
  af: Alminana, José M.
  Udgivet: (2010)
• A New Paradigm in Sustainable Land Use : The global change in land use and its impact on the hydrology reduces evaporation and precipitation rates and releases heat.
  af: Schmidt, Marco
  Udgivet: (2010)