Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design : approaches to time, people, and place responsive urban spaces. / txt
Edited by Sergio Porta ... [et al.].
- xiii, 168p. ill. ; plans; 24 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references.
Departments: Part I: Time-Conscious Urban Design -- Section One: The unsustainable lasting of time-unconscious urban design -- 1 Space and people: the case for socially sustainable urban design -- 2 Three core messages, or what we mostly should do -- Section Two: A common ground – space and people -- 3 The knowledge of order and complexity -- 4 The beauty of order and complexity -- 5 The building of order and complexity -- Section Three: Time-conscious urban design – clues to a starting point -- 6 Cultural biases and disciplinary contradictions against time-conscious urban design -- 7 Notices of time-conscious urban design: practices and projects -- Part II: Analysis For The Sustainable City -- 8 Analytical techniques for a sustainable city -- 9 Travel time budgets as a tool for a sustainable urban design Peter Newman -- 10 The generation of diversity: mixed use and urban sustainability Graeme Evans and Jo Foord -- 11 Multiple centrality assessment: mapping centrality in networks of urban spaces Sergio Porta and Vito Latora -- 12 Measuring the success of transit-oriented development using a sustainability framework: TOD outcome analysis John L. Renne -- 13 Accessibility and user needs in transport: street audit toolkit Nastaran Azmin-Fouladi -- 14 Raster cities: image-processing techniques for environmental urban analysis Eugenio Morello and Carlo Ratti -- 15 The Communities in Action Handbook Ombretta Romice And Hildebrand Frey -- 16 Collaborative planning and design for a sustainable neighborhood on Quebec City’s university campus Genevieve Vachon, Carole Despres, Aurore Nembrini, Florent Joerin, Andree Fortin and GianPiero Moretti -- 17 GIS behaviour mapping for provision of interactive empirical Knowledge, vital monitoring and better place design Barbara Golicnik -- 18 Experimental landscape: revealing hidden dimensions of people-place relations Kevin Thwaites and Ian Simkins -- 19 Listening to and understanding the voices of the people with learning disabilities in the planning and design process Alice Mathers -- 20 Listening to and understanding the voices of young children in the planning and design process Ian Simkins -- Part III: Conclusion -- 21 Conclusion --
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City planning Public spaces Sustainable development City planning--Environmental aspects.