The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook: A comprehensive guide to creating sustainable urban design

 

Nico Larco, AIA (Professor of Architecture and Urban Design) and Kaarin Knudson, AIA (Mayor-Elect of the City of Eugene and Adjunct Professor) of the University of Oregon just published The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook which gathers leading sustainability practices and the latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development, ecology, and environmental engineering and presents them in a graphically rich and accessible format that can help guide urban design decisions in cities of all sizes.

This book presents a comprehensive framework that organizes more than 50 elements of sustainable urban design under five topics—Energy Use & Greenhouse Gas, Water, Ecology & Habitat, Energy Use & Production, and Equity & Health—and relative to four project scales: Region & City, District & Neighborhood, Block & Street, and Project & Parcel. Each element chapter includes a summary of importance and background, compares typical practices and recommended approaches, explains connections to other elements, and concludes with urban design guidelines that can be used to directly inform projects and design decisions.

Easy to use and reference, The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook provides both an in-depth introduction to topics across sustainable urban design and serves as an on-going reference for anyone involved in the creation of sustainable urban environments. This resource will be useful to design and planning professionals, community members, students, and elected officials in guiding decisions about our sustainable future.

The book is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Urban-Design-Handbook/dp/1138945692