Sustainable cities: A reflection on potentialities and limits based on existing eco-districts in Europe

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2019, Pages

  Bottero, Marta ^a   Caprioli, Caterina ^a   Cotella, Giancarlo ^a   Santangelo, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eco district; Indicators; Post carbon cities; Smart urbanism; Sustainable neighborhood; Urban design energy transition

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; NEIGHBORHOOD; SMART CITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85073931259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su11205794     Document Type: Article

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