Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design : Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces

by Thwaites, Kevin; Porta, Sergio; Romice, Ombretta; Greaves, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780203934470
• ISBN10: 0203934474
• Copyright: 2007-12-06
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design provides the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable and long-term solutions to the design and management of urban environments.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Time-Conscious Urban Design 1. Introduction: the unsustainable lasting of time-unconscious urban design 1.1. Space and people: the case for socially sustainable urban design 1.2. Three core messages, or what we mostly should do 2. Time-conscious urban design: a common ground 2.1. Space and people: a literature review and the case for urban design 2.2. Time-conscious urban design: clues of a starting point Part 2. Analysis for the Sustainable City 3. Analytical techniques for a sustainable city: kicking off the toolbox 3.1. Practicing an oxymore: life-world, technical knowledge and the need for episteme-diversity 3.2. The tools Travel Time Budgets as a Tool for Sustainable Urban Design Peter Newman The Generation of Diversity: Mixed Use and Urban Sustainability Graeme Evans Multiple Centrality Assessment Sergio Porta and Vito Latora Measuring the Success of Transit-Oriented Development Using a Sustainability Framework: TOD Outcome Analysis John Renne Accessibility and User Needs in Transport: Street Audit Toolkit Nastaran Azmin-Fouladi Raster Cities: image processing techniques for environmental urban analysis Eugenio Morello and Carlo Ratti The Communities in Action Handbook Ombretta Romice and Hidebrand Frey Collaborative Planning and Design for a Sustainable Neighbourhood on Quebec City's University Campus Geneviéve Vachon, Carole Desprès, Aurore Nembrini and Florent Joerin GIS Behaviour Mapping For A Provision Of Interactive Empirical Knowledge, Vital Monitoring And Better Place Design Barbara Golicnik Experiential Landscape: revealing hidden dimensions of people-place relations Kevin Thwaites and Ian Simkins Approaches of Inclusivity Alice Mathers and Ian SimkinsCathryn Chatburn Conclusions