Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1
Author: Stephen Curwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN: 1134354452

Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops a set of protocols for evaluating the sustainability of urban development.Protocols included are for sustainable urban planning, urban property development, urban design, the construction, operation and use of buildings. Using these protocols, the book goes on to provide a directory of environmental assessment methods for evaluating the sustainability of urban development and also maps out how these assessment methods are bei.

Sustainable Urban Development: The environmental assessment methods

Sustainable Urban Development: The environmental assessment methods
Author: S. R. Curwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415322162

This second title of a three-volume series based on research by the influential BEQUEST network examines the methodology of environmental assessment, providing unique insight into critical aspects to sustainable urban development.

Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development

Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development
Author: Janis Birkeland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2020-02-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780367258559

'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities. Positive Development theory holds that development could create more net ecological and social gains than no construction at all. It explains how existing conceptual, physical and institutional structures are inherently biased against the preservation and expansion of social and natural life-support systems, and proposes explicit reforms to planning, design and decision making that would enable development to increase future options and social and natural life-support systems - in absolute terms. Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development is aimed at students, academics, professionals and sustainability advocates who wonder why existing approaches have been ineffective. It explains how to reform the anti-ecological biases in our current frameworks of environmental governance, planning, decision making and design - and suggests how to make these changes. Cities can increase both the 'public estate' (reduce social stratification, inequity and other causes of conflict, increase environmental quality, wellbeing and access to basic needs, etc.); and the 'ecological base' (sequester more carbon and produce more energy than used during construction and operation, increase ecological space to support ecological carrying capacity, ecosystem functions and services, restore the bioregions and wilderness, etc.). No small task, this new book provides academic theory and professional tools for saving the planet, including a free computer app for net-positive design.

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1
Author: Stephen Curwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-09-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134354444

Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops a set of protocols for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. Protocols included are for sustainable urban planning, urban property development, urban design, the construction, operation and use of buildings. Using these protocols, the book goes on to provide a directory of environmental assessment methods for evaluating the sustainability of urban development and also maps out how these assessment methods are being transformed to evaluate the environmental, economic and social sustainability of urban development. Web-based applications are increasingly being used to support this transformation and the contributors deftly cover this application and issues concerning the use of information and communication technologies for evaluating the sustainability of urban development are also dealt with. With its multidisciplinary approach, Sustainable Urban Development presents key new material for postgraduates and professionals across the built environment.

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3
Author: Ron Vreeker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2009-01-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134354312

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations. This book provides case studies drawn from locations across Europe, and also provides best practice examples demonstrating those protocols that planners, property developers and design and construction professionals have followed, and how they have selected the assessment methods they need to best evaluate the sustainability of cities, districts, neighbourhoods and buildings.

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2
Author: Mark Deakin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2007-04-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134354371

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban development and equity of the resulting resource distribution. The examination focuses on: the instruments of environmental assessment approaches to environmental assessment based in systems-thinking methods for environmental, economic and social assessments their use in evaluating the sustainability of urban development. The Sustainable Urban Development Series contains the research and debate of the BEQUEST (Building, Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability) network funded by the European Commission. Together the books provide a framework, set of protocols, environmental assessment methods and toolkit for policy makers, academics, professionals and advanced level students in urban planning and studies, as well as other areas of the built environment.

Sustainable Urban Development: A toolkit for assessment

Sustainable Urban Development: A toolkit for assessment
Author: S. R. Curwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415322189

This book outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that provides the means by which to link the protocols with the assessment methods currently available to evaluate the sustainability of urban development.

Sustainable Urban Development

Sustainable Urban Development
Author: Ram Babu Singh
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9788180692956

The present compendium of 26 papers relates to conceptual and empirical case studies from India and other Asian countries. It also combines an academic understanding with an empirical case studies from India and other Asian countries.