Book Details

Dimensions of the Sustainable City

Publication year: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8647-2

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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 sustainability. Drawing together the various dimensions of sustainability – economic, social, transport, energy and ecological – the book examines their relationships both to each other and to urban form. The book investigates the sustainability dimensions of cities through a series of projects based on a common list of elements of urban form, and which draw on the consortium’s latest research to review the sustainability issues of each dimension. The elements of urban form include density, land use, location, accessibility, transport infrastructure and characteristics of the built environment.


Subject: Architecture and Design, Cities, Environmental sustainability, Planning, Social and economic sustainabililty, Sustainable development, biodiversity, design, environment, sustainability, transport