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

Title: Planning and design strategies for sustainability and profit : pragmatic sustainable design on building and urban scales /
Main Author: Pitts, Adrian C.
Publisher: Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press, 2004.

ISBN/ISSN: 0750654643 (alk. paper)
Description: xi, 244 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.

Table of contents: Pt. A. The background: sustainability in context
Ch. 1. Introduction
Ch. 2. Drivers for change
Pt. B. Planning and designing for sustainability
Ch. 3. Strategic environmental planning issues
Ch. 4. Designing the built environment
Ch. 5. Assessment methodologies
Pt. C. Exploiting the potential
Ch. 6. Profiting from sustainable design and development
Ch. 7. Case studies
Ch. 8. The way forward.

Subject(s): Sustainable architecture --Economic aspects.
City planning --Economic aspects.
City planning --Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 711.14 P692