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

by Thwaites; Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780415384803
• ISBN10: 041538480X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares more responsive, lively and safe?

Table of Contents

Notes on the authors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Time-Conscious Urban Design	p. 1
The unsustainable lasting of time-unconscious urban design	p. 3
Space and people: the case for socially sustainable urban design	p. 4
Three core messages, or what we mostly should do	p. 10
A common ground - space and people	p. 27
The knowledge of order and complexity	p. 28
The beauty of order and complexity	p. 39
The building of order and complexity	p. 50
Time-conscious urban design - clues to a starting point	p. 53
Cultural biases and disciplinary contradictions against time-conscious urban design	p. 54
Notices of time-conscious urban design: practices and projects	p. 59
Analysis for the Sustainable City	p. 79
Analytical techniques for a sustainable city	p. 81
Travel time budgets as a tool for sustainable urban design	p. 87
The generation of diversity: mixed use and urban sustainability	p. 95
Multiple centrality assessment: mapping centrality in networks of urban spaces	p. 101
Measuring the success of transit-oriented development using a sustainability framework: TOD outcome analysis	p. 106
Accessibility and user needs in transport: street audit toolkit	p. 112
Raster cities: image-processing techniques for environmental urban analysis	p. 119
The Communities in Action Handbook	p. 123
Collaborative planning and design for a sustainable neighbourhood on Quebec City's university campus	p. 129
GIS behaviour mapping for provision of interactive empirical knowledge, vital monitoring and better place design	p. 136
Experiential landscape: revealing hidden dimensions of people-place relations	p. 141
Listening to and understanding the voices of people with learning disabilities in the planning and design process	p. 146
Listening to and understanding the voices of young children in the planning and design process	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 159
Index	p. 163
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