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Designing Sustainable Cities
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781444318685
Umbreit-Nr.: 3659482
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 336 S., 22.89 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 24.11.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers.<p>Addressing sustainability issues in relation to the design and planning of the urban environment is a complex, multi-disciplinary issue and solutions never arrive from a single perspective. The authors use design as a facilitating factor to consider when and by whom decisions that contribute to sustainability are made, and through three major city-centre case studies - London, Manchester and Sheffield they consider social, environmental and economic factors and examine their relationship to the decision-making process.</p><p><i>Designing Sustainable Cities</i> begins by identifying the key processes and lead decision-makers. The following chapters develop an understanding of the dimensions of sustainability, presenting the tools by which the dimensions can be analysed. Later chapters illustrate the trade-offs and the relationships between the dimensions of sustainability - with case study examples - as well as the use of IT in making design decisions. Finally, the book makes recommendations for future approaches to the design, development and on-going management of urban environments.</p><p><i>Designing Sustainable Cities</i> covers:</p><ul><li>latest research data on the urban environment and the interaction between social, economic and environmental issues</li><li>methods of understanding the context in which urban design takes place</li><li>guidance on the codes of practice</li><li>process maps to help understand the context, make trade-offs and develop design solutions that allow for change</li><li>methods for testing the consequences of design proposals and monitoring outcomes.</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- Rachel Cooper Lancaster University<br /><p>Graeme Evans London Metropolitan University<br /></p><p>Christopher T Boyko Lancaster University</p>