Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design - Couverture souple

Birkeland, Janis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844075796 ISBN 13 : 9781844075799

Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end. This book challenges everyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning, architecture or the built environment to rethink their current ideas and practices.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Janis Birkeland worked consecutively as artist, advocacy planner, architect, urban designer, city planner and attorney in San Francisco before entering academia in Australia. She has authored over 100 publications on built environment and sustainability and wrote the highly successful and widely adopted Design for Sustainability (Earthscan, 2002). She is now Professor of Architecture at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844075796
• ISBN 13: 9781844075799
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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