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More About This Title Designing Sustainable Cities
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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.
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Graeme Evans – London Metropolitan University
Christopher T Boyko – Lancaster University
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Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Introduction.
Section 1 The urban design process.
Introduction.
1 The urban design decision-making process: definitions and issues.
2 Urban design decision-making process: case studies.
3 Urban design decision-making process: a new approach.
Overview.
Section 2 Environmental sustainability and city-centre living.
Introduction.
4 Urban environmental quality.
5 The sensory city.
6 Inclusive design of 'away from home' toilets.
Overview.
Section 3Urban form and social sustainability for city-centre living.
Introduction.
7 Housing in the twentieth-century city.
8 Designing safe residential areas.
9 Crime and urban design: an evidence-based approach.
Overview.
Section 4Diversity and mixed use for city-centre living.
Introduction.
10 Urban sustainability: mixed use or mixed messages?
11 The generation of diversity.
Overview.
Section 5 Supporting urban design decision-making: ICT.
Introduction.
12 IT Infrastructure for supporting multidisciplinary urban planning.
Section 6 VivaCity2020: artists-in-residence.
Introduction.
13 The role of art practice within VivaCity2020.
14 Present in public space.
Overview.
15 The ongoing sustainable city endeavour.
Appendices.
1 VivaCity industry partners and collaborators.
2 Explaining space syntax.
Index.
