edited by Rachel Cooper, Graeme Evans, Christopher Boyko.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Ames, Iowa :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Wiley-Blackwell Pub.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 320 pages :
Other Physical Details
color illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The urban design decision-making process: definitions and issues -- The urban design decision-making process: case studies -- The urban design decision-making process: a new approach -- Urban environmental quality -- The sensory city -- Inclusive design of 'away from home' toilets -- Housing in the twentieth-century city -- Designing safe residential areas -- Crime and urban design: an evidence-based approach -- Urban sustainability: mixed-use or mixed messages? -- The generation of diversity -- IT infrastructure for supporting multidisciplinary urban planning -- The role of art practice within VivaCity2020 -- Present in public space.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Addressing sustainability issues in relation to the design and planning of the urban environment is a complex, multi-disciplinary issue and solutions never arrive from a single perspective. This book uses design to consider when and by whom decisions that contribute to sustainability are made.