Designing Sustainable Cities

This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers. Addressing sustainability issues in relation to the design and planning of the urban environment is a complex, multi-disciplinary issue and solutions never arrive from a single perspective. The authors use design as a facilitating factor to consider when and by whom decisions that contribute to sustainability are made, and through three major city-centre case studies - London, Manchester and Sheffield - they consider social, environmental and economic factors and examine their relationship to the decision-making process. Designing Sustainable Cities begins by identifying the key processes and lead decision-makers. The following chapters develop an understanding of the dimensions of sustainability, presenting the tools by which the dimensions can be analysed. Later chapters illustrate the trade-offs and the relationships between the dimensions of sustainability - with case study examples - as well as the use of IT in making design decisions. Finally, the book makes recommendations for future approaches to the design, development and on-going management of urban environments. Designing Sustainable Cities covers:* latest research data on the urban environment and the interaction between social, economic and environmental issues* methods of understanding the context in which urban design takes place* guidance on the codes of practice* process maps to help understand the context, make trade-offs and develop design solutions that allow for change* methods for testing the consequences of design proposals and monitoring outcomes.

ISBN 1405179155   Pages 336 ISBN13 9781405179157 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 928 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Published in Chicester Format Hardback   Height (mm) 247 Publication date 14 Aug 2009   Width (mm) 194 Library of Congress 2008034866   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 307.76   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		The VivaCity2020 Team
Sect. 1		The urban design process
1		The urban design decision-making process: definitions and issues		3
2		The urban design decision-making process: case studies		17
3		The urban design decision-making process: a new approach		42
Sect. 2		Environmental sustainability and city-centre living
4		Urban environmental quality		54
5		The sensory city		75
6		Inclusive design of 'away from home' toilets		86
Sect. 3		Urban form and social sustainability for city-centre living
7		Housing in the twentieth-century city		112
8		Designing safe residential areas		139
9		Crime and urban design: an evidence-based approach		163
Sect. 4		Diversity and mixed-use for city-centre living
10		Urban sustainability: mixed-use or mixed messages?		189
11		The generation of diversity		218
Sect. 5		Supporting urban design decision-making: ICT
12		IT infrastructure for supporting multidisciplinary urban planning		242
Sect. 6		VivaCity2020: artists-in-residence
13		The role of art practice within VivaCity2020		265
14		Present in public space		279
15		Conclusion: The ongoing sustainable city endeavour		287
App. 1		VivaCity2020 industry partners and collaborators		297
App. 2		Explaining space syntax		300
		Index		311

The presentation and interpretation of the data from the study areas provides the reader with a sound and logical introduction to the complex topic of sustainable urban design and offers some practical solutions to achieving sustainable designs. (Building Engineer, November 2009)

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