Sustainable urban design : an environmental approach / edited by Adam Ritchie & Randall Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ritchie, Adam, MCIBSE

Thomas, Randall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction / Adam Ritchie

Urban planning and design / Patrick Clarke

Transportation / Robert Thorne, William Filmer-Sankey and Anthony Alexander

Landscape and nature in the city / Christina Von Borcke

Building design / Randall Thomas and Adam Ritchie

Energy and information / Randall Thomas and Adam Ritchie

Materials / Sarah Royse

Water / Randall Thomas and Adam Ritchie

Waste and resource / Adam Ritchie

Summary / Adam Ritchie

Coopers road estate : regeneration / David Turrent

Parkmount : streetscape and solar design / Richard Partington and Adrian Hornsby

Coin street housing : the architecture of engagement / Graham Haworth

Sustainable design in an urban context : three case studies / Alan Short

BedZED : Beddington zero-fossil energy development / Bill Dunster

Bo01 and Flagghusen : ecological city districts in Malmö, Sweden / Eva Dalman and Cecilia Von Schéele

Stonebridge : negotiating between traditional and modernist models of city housing / Christ Watson

'Made in Stockwell' and Deptford Wharves / Katie Tonkinson and Adam Ritchie

Millennium water : Vancouver's Olympic Village, Canada / Rachel Moscovich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-229) and index.

ISBN:

9780415447812

041544781X

9780415447829

0415447828

OCLC:

277118380