Sustainable Residential Development presents a much-needed process for planning and designing green communities, written by one of North America’s foremost and most in-demand experts in sustainability.
This book covers the key principles of residential planning and offers principles for innovative and sustainable neighbourhood design. It is useful to... Læs mere
This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging “Baby Boomers,” and climate change.
This book explores the rise of technology-centered urban planning and the diffusion of these practices around the world. Each aspect is explored in its own chapter that... Læs mere
The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.The depletion of non-renewable natural resources and climate change are a few of the environmental challenges.