Attractive efficiency: The emerging energy crisis & strategies for energy efficient urban design

Allen, Christopher

Title:

Attractive efficiency: The emerging energy crisis & strategies for energy efficient urban design

dc.contributor.author	Allen, Christopher
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of City and Regional Planning	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-21T13:16:05Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-21T13:16:05Z
dc.date.issued	2014-05-03
dc.description.abstract	American patterns of urban development are generally characterized by sprawl, automobile-centric transportation networks, and free market abundance. America’s post-WWII urban expansion and infrastructure emplacement was built when the United States was the world’s leading producer of hydrocarbon energy, and therefore did not make transmission efficiency a priority. The energy picture today is much different as world population grows, and demand for limited fossil fuels continues to rise. This nation needs a new scheme of urban development awareness that combines contemporary urbanism planning paradigms with the latest energy distribution network. Together, these two components address the way we utilize energy, and rethink the efficiency of our urban system in an effort to quantitatively reduce per capita energy consumption. Together, these components—smart growth combined with the smart grid—formulate attractive efficiency: an integrated, strategic approach of employing smart grid technologies with desirable design techniques from the human perspective in order to enable people to become conscious consumers within their community.	en_US
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51763
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Urban development	en_US
dc.subject	Urban sprawl	en_US
dc.subject	Energy efficiency	en_US
dc.subject	Smart grid	en_US
dc.title	Attractive efficiency: The emerging energy crisis & strategies for energy efficient urban design	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Masters Project
dc.type.genre	Applied Research Paper
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