Sustainable Residential Development

Subtitle:: Planning and Design for Green Neighborhoods
Author:: Avi Friedman
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

Suitable for urban planners, architects, landscape architects, civil engineers, environmental engineers, and property and real estate managers.

Long description

This book is suitable for urban planners, architects, landscape architects, civil engineers, environmental engineers, and property and real estate managers. The accompanying website offers more than 100 downloadable plans and elevations to give readers a head start in planning and designing sustainable communities. The author is the recipient of the United Nations World Habitat Award.

Product details

Publisher:: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN:: 9780071479615
Publication date:: June 2007
Length:: 252mm
Width:: 204mm
Thickness:: 13mm
Weight:: 730g
Pages:: 288
Illustrations:: Illustrated
Readership:: Research & professional
Illustrated:: Illustrated

Chapter 1. Defining and Applying Principles of Sustainability in Neighborhood Development
Chapter 2. Learning Lessons from the Past: The Rise of Suburbia
Chapter 3. Site Selection and Analysis
Chapter 4. Strategies for High-Density Neighborhoods: New Urbanism
Chapter 5. Planning, Design and Construction Principles for Sustainability
Chapter 6. The Urban Renewal Process and Architectural Heritage
Chapter 7. Balancing Environmental, Cultural and Economic Needs: A Framework for Greener Neighborhoods