Designing Sustainable Cities

by Rachel Cooper (Lancaster University); Graeme Evans (London Metropolitan University); Christopher Boyko (Lancaster University)

• ISBN13: 9781444318685
• ISBN10: 1444318683
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers.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.

Table of Contents

The Vivacity Team

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

The urban design process

Introduction

The urban design decision-making process: definitions and issues

Urban design decision-making process: case studies

Urban design decision-making process: a new approach

Overview

Environmental sustainability and city-centre living

Introduction

Urban environmental quality

The sensory city

Inclusive design of 'away from home' toilets

Overview

Urban form and social sustainability for city-centre living

Introduction

Housing in the twentieth-century city

Designing safe residential areas

Crime and urban design: an evidence-based approach

Overview

Diversity and mixed use for city-centre living

Introduction

Urban sustainability: mixed use or mixed messages?

The generation of diversity

Overview

Supporting urban design decision-making: ICT

Introduction

IT Infrastructure for supporting multidisciplinary urban planning

VivaCity2020: artists-in-residence

Introduction

The role of art practice within VivaCity2020

Present in public space

Overview

The ongoing sustainable city endeavour

Appendices

VivaCity industry partners and collaborators

Explaining space syntax

Index

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