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Planning and design strategies for sustainability and profit : pragmatic sustainable design on building and urban scales
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Burlington, MA : Architectural Press, 2004
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9780750654647

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Summary

It provides examples of good practice and guidelines for future development - information that shows how sustainability has been developed to provide tangible benefits, not only to the environment, but also to users and designers.


Table of Contents

Part A The background: sustainability in context
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Drivers for change
Part B Planning and designing for sustainability
Chapter 3 Strategic environmental planning issues
Chapter 4 Designing the built environment
Chapter 5 Assessment methodologies
Part C Exploiting the potential
Chapter 6 Profiting from sustainable design and development
Chapter 7 Case studies (includes: Leicester, Newark and Bedzed, UK; Austin, Chatanooga and Portland, US; Malmo, Sweden; Melbourne and Sydney, Australia; Hong Kong)
Chapter 8 The way forward Bibliography and websites