Tabla de Contenidos: “…Parish hall (Ebersberg, Germany) / Georg and Ingrid Küttinger. Private house (Stuttgart, Germany) / Schlude Ströhle. Cemetery (Eching, Germany) / Sampo Widmann, Stephan Romero. …”

“…Pilot studies were carried out in eight metropolitan areas: Bologna/Modena, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lodz, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice/Padua, and Vienna. The project involved feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of UHIs, and focused on the specific morphology of EU urban areas, which are often characterized by the presence of historical old towns. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…<P>Preface</p> <p>Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview 1</p> <p>The Shifting Landscape of Green Buildings</p> <p>The Roots of Sustainable Construction</p> <p>The Vocabulary of Sustainable Development and Sustainable Construction</p> <p>Rationale for High-Performance Buildings</p> <p>State and Local Green Building Initiatives</p> <p>Green Building Progress and Obstacles</p> <p>Trends in High-Performance Green Building</p> <p>Book Organization</p> <p>Case Study: Bloomberg European Headquarters</p> <p>Summary and Conclusions</p> <p>Part I Green Building Foundations </p> <p>Chapter 2 Background </p> <p>The Driving Forces for Sustainable Construction</p> <p>Ethics and Sustainability</p> <p>Basic Concepts and Vocabulary</p> <p>Major Environmental and Resource Concerns</p> <p>The Green Building Movement</p> <p>Case Study: OWP 11, Stuttgart, Germany</p> <p>Summary and Conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 3 Ecological Design </p> <p>Design Versus Ecological Design</p> <p>Contemporary Ecological Design</p> <p>Key Green Building Publications: Early 1990s</p> <p>Key Thinking about Ecological Design</p> <p>Evolving the Concept of Ecological Design</p> <p>Thermodynamics: Limits on Recycling and the Dissipation of Materials</p> <p>Case Study: Kroon Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut</p> <p>Synthesis</p> <p>Summary and Conclusions</p> <p>Part II Assessing High-Performance Green Buildings </p> <p>Chapter 4 Green Building Assessment </p> <p>Purpose of Green Building Assessment Systems</p> <p>Major Green Building Assessment Systems Used in the US</p> <p>International Building Assessment Systems</p> <p>Summary and Conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 5 The US Green Building Council LEED Building Rating System </p> <p>Brief History of LEED</p> <p>Structure of the LEED Suite of Building Rating Systems</p> <p>LEED Credentials</p> <p>LEED v4.1 Structure and Process</p> <p>Green Building Certification Institute Relationship to the USGBC and LEED</p> <p>LEED Certification Process</p> <p>LEED Building Design and Construction Rating System</p> <p>Regional Priority</p> <p>Case Study: Stephen C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Los primeros tiempos del camino.Stuttgart (1770-1788) -- 2.1. Lo histórico-biográfico 2.1.1. …”