Designing Sustainable Cities address sustainability in relation to the design and planning of urban environments. The book thoroughly explains the key processes and lead decision-makers, serving to enable readers to gain a better understanding of this complex, multi-disciplinary issue.
Providing guidance to the creative and innovative solutions needed to effectively tackle environmental, social and economic issues, the book also shows users how to communicate these solutions effectively to developers, planners and policymakers. This text can also be used to show how and by whom decisions that contribute to sustainability are made, and presents three major city-center case studies (Sheffield, Manchester and London) to consider environmental, social and economic factors while examining their relationship to the decision-making process.
The chapters provide comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics, including the various dimensions of sustainability, the tools by which the dimension can be analyzed, the trade-offs and the relationships between the dimensions of sustainability, and recommendations for future approaches to the development, design and ongoing management of urban environments. 312 pages.
Table of Contents:
- Ch 1 The urban design decision-making process: definitions and issues.
- Ch 2 Urban design decision-making process: case studies.
- Ch 3 Urban design decision-making process: a new approach.
- Ch 4 Urban environmental quality.
- Ch 5 The sensory city.
- Ch 6 Inclusive design of 'away from home' toilets.
- Ch 7 Housing in the twentieth century city
- Ch 8 Designing safe residential areas.
- Ch 9 Crime and urban design: an evidence-based approach.
- Ch 10 Urban sustainability: mixed-use or mixed messages?.
- Ch 11 The generation of diversity.
- Ch 12 IT Infrastructure for supporting multi-disciplinary urban planning.
- Ch 13 The role of art practice within VivaCity2020.
- Ch 14 Present in public space.
- Ch 15 The Ongoing Sustainable City Endeavour.
Designing Sustainable Cities
