文档介绍：Eco-city Planning
Tai-Chee Wong · Belinda Yuen
Editors
Eco-city Planning
Policies, Practice and Design
In Association with the
123 Singapore Institute of Planners
Editors
Dr. Tai-Chee Wong Dr. Belinda Yuen
Nanyang Technological University Singapore Institute of Planners
National Institute of Education Singapore
Nanyang Walk 1 belyuen8@
637616 Singapore
Singapore
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ISBN 978-94-007-0382-7 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0383-4
DOI -94-007-0383-4
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Foreword
Eco-city planning is putting the emphasis on the environmental aspects of planning
while sustainable planning treats equally the economic, social and environmental
aspects. Eco-city planning and management are based on the principle of a cyclical
urban metabolism, minimizing the use of land, energy and materials, and impair-
ment of the natural environment, ultimately leading to zero carbon settlements. This
principle is illustrated by Hammarby Sjöstad (Stockholm)1, as indicated by the edi-
tors in their book’s introductory chapter (see Brebbia et al. 2010).2 The book starts
with a historic account of eco-city planning. Seven thousand years of urban civiliza-
tion and planning history have clearly more to tell us than a century of functionalist
planning, which leaves a questionable legacy of economic, soc