Environmental sustainability and urban densification

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2011, Pages 217-228

  Fatone, S ^a   Conticelli, E ^a   Tondelli, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building rules; Compact city; Densification; Environmental sustainability; Urban density

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84865765397     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/SC120191     Document Type: Article

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