Urban Infrastructure in Transition

, by Guy, Simon; Marvin, Simon; Moss, Timothy; Moss, Timothy

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While changes in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are projected to be slow and smooth, the intensity and impacts of climate change on the environment and society could be abrupt and erratic. Surprising and nonlinear responses a

List of figures and tables

About the contributors

Foreword

viii

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms and abbreviations

xii

Part 1 Interpreting Infrastructure

Flow Management in Urban Regions: Introducing a Concept

(19)

Timothy Moss

Urban Environmental Flows: Towards a New Way of Seeing

(21)

Simon Guy

Simon Marvin

Part 2 Reconfiguring Networks

Introduction

(2)

Susanne Balslev Nielsen

Simon Marvin

Battle of the Systems? Changing Styles of Water Recycling in Berlin

(14)

Timothy Moss

Decentralized Technology in Centralized Networks: Interpretative Flexibility of Rainwater Precolation in Copenhagen

(11)

Susanne Balslev Nielsen

Restabilizing a Heterogeneous Network: The Yorkshire Drought 1995-96

(19)

Suzie Osborn

Simon Marvin

Conclusions

(7)

Simon Marvin

Susanne Balslev Nielsen

Part 3 Transforming Buildings

Introduction

(2)

Simon Guy

Contesting Environmental Design: The Hybrid Green Building

(16)

Simon Guy

Suzie Osborn

The Social Organization of Environmental Design: Residential Buildings in the Berlin Region

103

(17)

Regine Mauruszat

Green Buildings in an Infrastructure Perspective

120

(23)

Jesper Ole Jensen

Conclusions: Understanding Green Design

136

(5)

Simon Guy

Part 4 Connecting Plans

Introduction

141

(2)

Timothy Moss

Morten Elle

Local Energy Planning and Electricity Networks: Disconnections and Reconnections

143

(17)

Simon Guy

Simon Marvin

Infrastructure and Local Agenda 21: The Municipality of Albertslund in the Copenhagen Region

160

(13)

Morten Elle

Competing Notions of Reshaping Flow Management: Local Agenda 21 in Berlin

173

(24)

Timothy Moss

Conclusions: Planning for Sustainable Urban Flows

192

(5)

Timothy Moss

Morten Elle

Part 5 Re-Interpreting Urban Infrastructure

Conclusions: Contesting Networks

197

(10)

Simon Guy

Simon Marvin

Timothy Moss

Index

207

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Urban Infrastructure in Transition

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