Description
Book SynopsisAward-winning title on the benefits, challenges and possibilities of urban underground spaces. The book gives a broad overview of the concept of underground space development investigating the issues that are associated with the sustainable development of urban underground space.
This book shows the benefits, and world-class examples of underground space development and how that translates into sustainable urbanisation.
Underground Spaces Unveiled
- approaches all aspects of urban underground space and brings together both past and present insights
- includes worldwide case studies from the perspectives or a civil engineer and an urban planner, offering a multi-faceted approach to the considerations of underground space use
- places urban underground space within the context of climate change, city resilience and rapid urbanisation
- discusses the various claims to the subsurface including the use for space versus the use for energy.
