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The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings

Author(s)/Editor(s): Joana Carla Soares Goncalves | Size: 14 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Original preprint | Publisher: Routledge | Year: 2010 | pages: 401 | ISBN: 1844078124, 9781844078127


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The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings

1 The Tall Building and the City 27
The tall building and the argument for density: Historical precedents 29
The impacts of the tall building 33
Conclusions 78

2 The Global Perspective 83
Europe 86
North America 106
South America 114
Asia 124

3 Towards an Environmental Approach 143
Climate and environmental design 150
The impacts of design 169
Tall buildings and energy 208
The environmental performance of buildings: Proposal for design criteria 220

4 the environmental paradigm of tall buildings 237
Europe: Frankfurt and London 240
North America: New York City 277
South America: São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro 292
Asia: Abu Dhabi and Guangzhou 301
Critical review: The environmental performance of tall buildings 309

5 Final Considerations: Lessons Learnt and Future Issues for the
Environmental Tall Building

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