Urban design for sustainability: final report of the Working Group on Urban Design for
Sustainability to the European Union Expert Group on the Urban Environment …

This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development,
and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and …

I have been very fortunate that I got the opportunity to work under supervision of Prof. Attilia
Peano and Angioletta Voghera. I want to express my deep-felt thanks to my supervisors for …

The role urban design and urban designers can play in helping to deliver high-quality,
sustainable built environments is now well established, both in the UK and elsewhere …

Introduction Cities cover only 2 per cent of the world's land surface yet they consume over 75
per cent of the planet's material resources. 1 The ongoing improvement and expansion of …

In the essay entitled 'Towards a Sustainable City Centre'(published in JGB Summer 2006),
the author reflected on principles how to best integrate ecologically sustainable …

In the United Kingdom the sustainable dimension of urban design has steadily emerged.
Many ideas about the interpenetration of town and country, for example, can be traced back …

The urban design process must be transformed and improved if various stakeholders wish to
create sustainable urban environments. Although the UK Government and other influential …

The CityForm consortium's latest book, Dimensions of the Sustainable City, is the first book
to report on an empirical multi-disciplinary study specifically designed to address urban …

The sustainable urban design referred to here is essentially environmental. The book steers
away from any concern for social and economic sustainability, or any concern for how these …