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

ISBN-13: 9780415395472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 184 str.

Kevin Thwaites

Opis

What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares more responsive, lively and safe? This title answers this question by providing the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for solutions to the design and management of urban environments.

Spis treści

Part 1. Time-Conscious Urban Design  1. Introduction: the unsustainable lasting of time-unconscious urban design  2. Time-conscious urban design: a common ground  Part 2. Analysis for the Sustainable City  3. Analytical techniques for a sustainable city: kicking off the toolbox   3.1. Practicing an oxymore  3.2. The tools  Conclusions

O autorze

Sergio Porta is assistant professor in urban planning and design at the Department of Architecture and Planning of the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, where he holds the ‘Laboratory of Urban Design’ course. He is adjunct professor at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Kevin Thwaites researches and teaches landscape architecture and urban design at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield where he is Director of Learning and Teaching. He has worked in private practice and, with Ian Simkins, is co-founder of elp:rdu, a research facility which explores experiential aspects of outdoor space use. Ombretta Romice is an architect heading the Urban Design Masters at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is actively involved in IAPS (International Association for People-Environment Studies). Mark Greaves is a professional planner focused on the delivery of exemplary urban design solutions. He is currently working in local authority planning in the UK.