The unbearable lightness of expertness or space creation in the "climate change" era: A theoretical extension of the "constructal law" for building and urban design

City, Culture and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 21-29

  Mavromatidis, Lazaros Elias ^a   Mavromatidi, Asimina ^b   Lequay, Hervé ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

"Climate change"; "Constructal law"; Bioclimatic design; Radical imaginary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919494779     PISSN: 18779166     EISSN: 18779174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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