ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the role of green buildings in the future and their relationship with the infrastructure networks. The green buildings have been seen as an important way to achieve sustainable cities and have a central role in various national environmental programmes. A focal point of green buildings has been the ability to reduce flows, that is, minimize consumption and outputs of water, energy and materials by using different technical devices. Urban renewal in the Horse Stables Block represents an attempt to establish a self-sustained block as part of the urban renewal of Inner Vesterbro in Copenhagen. Although this view represents a rather radical attitude, it underlines the potential conflict between green buildings and the infrastructure networks, and also suggests a reason for the difference between green buildings in urban and rural contexts. To understand the role of green buildings in sustainable development it is necessary to understand how they relate to the technical networks.
