The Dutch Working Group on Sustainable Urban Development has recently delivered its
publication Sustainable Urban Design, The Next Step (Meijer & Dubbeling, 2010). The book …

Ever since the publication of the Brundtland Report, Europe has been awash with policy
documents on sustainable building and sustainable cities. Many developers, contractors …

The principles of sustainability are currently applied in Germany and many other countries
as important guidelines for urban development. However, different forms of understanding …

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

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 …

This study is an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration, which discusses possible emerging
forms of sustainable urbanism in the 21st century. The idea of sustainable urbanism is …

In this article the future of sustainable urbanism is discussed. In current times a complex of
uncertainties demands sustainable environments. Three uncertainties are distinguished …

Sustainability has become the transdisciplinary buzzword of urbanism. Sustainability can be
leveraged as an integrated tool that can fortify design and redesign of urban forms that are …

The emergence of the concept of “sustainable development” has provoked an interesting
discussion about the physical, technological, and socioeconomic attributes of the …

This chapter reviews new developments made in response to complex objectives by
focusing on the Netherlands. The compact city and sustainability represent a belief system of …