Overview
- Features actually realized projects
- Discusses the projects accredited by the World Green Building Council’s criteria
- Presents the full spectrum of eco-urban development in a single publication
- The text is supported by over 300 high quality images and 100 diagrams
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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About this book
"Eco-Urban Design" focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become indisputable facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger the Earth's fragile ecological systems.
This book endeavours to tell the positive side of the story by featuring considered design solutions provided by the world's most innovative architects and engineers. By only including realised projects which have been subjected to post construction monitoring this publication provides evidence-based information that measured reductions in carbon emissions, water and energy usage can actually be achieved in the field and not just on the drawing board.
These completed projects demonstrate best practice and will inspire a new hybrid generation of designers who will combine architecture and engineering skills to resolve a key environmental challenge. Furthermore, these creative construction projects from a variety of genres including, commercial property, public buildings, social housing and private homes give testimony to the fact that investment in green archineering also provides a commercial advantage to forward thinking developers and investors.
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“Eco-Urban Design is a book that can be used to exemplify proven ecological and sustainable designs for a variety of building types in multiple climates. … a reference book for students, designers, or persons wanting inspiration for ecologically sound and sustainable design ideas for their own personal building projects. The authors have been taken great care to provide building examples that demonstrate a ‘valued contribution to the evolution of good design, and positive proof that it need not cost the earth’ … .” (Denise Gravitt, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 30 (07-09), July-September, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eco-Urban Design
Authors: John A. Flannery, Karen M. Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0369-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0368-1Published: 18 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7791-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0369-8Published: 18 August 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: III, 232
Topics: Building Types and Functions, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Cities, Countries, Regions, Sustainable Development, Regional and Cultural Studies