Achieving Sustainable Urban Form

✍ Scribed by Mike Jenks

Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 198
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.

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