Designing Sustainable Cities
Autor: | Rachel Cooper, Graeme Evans, Christopher Boyko |
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EAN: | 9781444318685 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 24.11.2009 |
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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.
Designing Sustainable Cities 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.
Designing Sustainable Cities covers:
- latest research data on the urban environment and the interaction between social, economic and environmental issues
- methods of understanding the context in which urban design takes place
- guidance on the codes of practice
- process maps to help understand the context, make trade-offs and develop design solutions that allow for change
- methods for testing the consequences of design proposals and monitoring outcomes.
Rachel Cooper – Lancaster University
Graeme Evans – London Metropolitan University
Christopher T Boyko – Lancaster University