Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3: The Toolkit for Assessment

by Vreeker; Ron

• ISBN13: 9780415322195
• ISBN10: 0415322197
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3: The Toolkit for Assessment provides case studies drawn from locations across Europe. It offers best practice examples of the protocols that planners, property developers, designers and construction professionals have selected and the assessment methods which have been adopted to evaluate the sustainability of cities, districts, neighbourhoods and buildings. Set within the BEQUEST (Building, Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability) framework, the book brings together contributions on the use of the protocols and assessment methods as a decision support system. The volume:

Author Biography

Ron Vreeker is Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Spatial Economics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mark Deakin is Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at the School of the Built Environment, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK Stephen Curwell is Professor of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgement	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Toolkit	p. 15
Decision Support for Sustainble Urban Development: The Origins and Potential of the BEQUEST Toolkit	p. 17
Assessment	p. 39
Simple and Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use	p. 41
Scenario Analysis in Spatial Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach	p. 43
Multi-criteria Evaluation and Planning Support: Choosing Among Alternative Scenarios for an Urban National Park in Sardinia, Italy	p. 62
Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use	p. 83
Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of Mixed and Compact Land Use	p. 85
Smartnet: A System for Multi-criteria Modelling and Appraisal of Road Transport Networks	p. 103
Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use, Buildings and Estates	p. 133
The NAR Model of Land Use and Building Assessment	p. 135
Documentation, Assessment and Labelling of Building Quality: The German 'Building Passport' Issue	p. 156
Advanced and Very Advanced Evaluations of Neigbourhoods, Districts and Cities	p. 175
The European HQE2R Sustainable Neighbourhood Assessment Toolkit: Case Study Experience	p. 177
The REGEN Assessment of the Porta Nuova District's Central Railway Station, Turin	p. 192
Assessment Methods Underlying the Planning and Development of Modena City's CSR	p. 211
Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development	p. 231
The Search for Sustainable Communities: Ecological Integrity, Equity and the Question of Participation	p. 233
Governing the Sustainability of Urban Development	p. 248
Conclusions	p. 274
Index	p. 282
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