Sustainable Urban Development: A toolkit for assessment

✍ Scribed by S. R. Curwell, Ron Vreeker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 302
Series: Sustainable urban development, v. 3
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations.This book provides case studies drawn from locations across Europe, and also provides best practice examples demonstrating those protocols that planners, property developers and design and construction professionals have followed, and how they have selected the assessment methods they need to best evaluate the sustainability of cities, districts, neighbourhoods and buildings.

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