Transport, housing and urban form: The life cycle energy consumption and emissions of city centre apartments compared with suburban dwellings

Urban Policy and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 377-396

  Perkins, Alan ^a   Hamnett, Steve ^b   Pullen, Stephen ^b   Zito, Rocco ^b   Trebilcock, David ^a  

^a South Australian Department for Environment   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apartments and suburban dwellings; Life cycle energy consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650743950     PISSN: 08111146     EISSN: 14767244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08111140903308859     Document Type: Article

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