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Planning and design strategies for sustainability and profit pragmatic sustainable design on building and urban scales

By: Language: English Publication details: Oxford Architectural Press 2003Description: xi, 244p. 25cmISBN:
  • 0750654643
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 711.1
Summary: A practical guide which demonstrates how sustainability has been developed to provide tangible benefits, as an economically viable and profitable option, not only to the environment but also to users and designers. Explains how to create profit from sustainable design and planning of the built environment. Advises on how theories of sustainability, with examples of good practice and guidelines for future developments, can be applied in actual projects, drawing on case studies from Europe, north America and Australia. Identifies the problems which demand that a holistic approach to sustainability be taken and provides a range of solutions and techniques that can be applied.
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A practical guide which demonstrates how sustainability has been developed to provide tangible benefits, as an economically viable and profitable option, not only to the environment but also to users and designers. Explains how to create profit from sustainable design and planning of the built environment. Advises on how theories of sustainability, with examples of good practice and guidelines for future developments, can be applied in actual projects, drawing on case studies from Europe, north America and Australia. Identifies the problems which demand that a holistic approach to sustainability be taken and provides a range of solutions and techniques that can be applied.

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