Sustainable Urban Design: An Environmental Approach - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415281237 ISBN 13: 9780415281232

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2002

Synopsis

Bringing together theory and practice this important text provides a coherent overview of the important issues in sustainable urban design. The contributors, recognised experts from both architectural and planning practices, focus on the physical aspects of the urban environment - the buildings and their engineering systems, landscaping, transport systems, energy, water and waste systems. Illustrated with state of the art case studies, the writers successfully cover all the key elements in one volume, providing substantiated examples of best practice.

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This important text provides a coherent overview of the important issues in sustainable urban design. The writers successfully cover all the key elements in one volume together with fully illustrated examples of best practice.

Synopsis

Our future is in Cities - by the end of the twenty-first century it is thought that three-quarters of the world's population will be urban. Making these cities healthy, vibrant and sustainable is an exceptional challenge which Sustainable Urban Design addresses. The book sets out some of the basic principles of the design of our future cities and, through a series of carefully-seected case studies drawn from UK and European experience by leading designers, illustrates how these ideas can be put into practice. This work provides a clear coherent view of the important environmental issues in urban design. The focus is on the physical aspects of the urban environment: the buildings (and their engineering systems), landscaping, transport systems and so forth, and the energy and material flows including water and wastes. Particular emphasis is placed on exciting new energy systems and how we can move towards cities which are more enjoyable, more interesting and more green while using less energy, materials and water.

Patrick Clarke, Tristan Couch, Bill Dunster, William Filmer-Sankey, Max Fordham, Graham Haworth, David Levitt, Mark Lewis, Richard Partington, Adam Ritchie, Alan Short, Michael Sillen, Randall Thomas,

Edition details

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415281237
• ISBN 13: 9780415281232
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Thomas Randall, Ritchie Adam