EcoMasterplanningISBN: 978-0-470-69729-0
Hardcover
256 pages
May 2009
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In planning for a sustainable future for our planet, it is vital
that we achieve a seamless and benign biointegration of all human
interventions in the natural environment. Finding green design
solutions for our built environment must start from the wider scale
of regional and urban planning and must then be carried right
through to infrastructural engineering, architecture and industrial
design. Masterplanning affords the chance to redress current
environmental imbalances and to reduce the consequences of our
built systems on the environment, with the greater and of reversing
climate change.
Ecomasterplanning presents a groundbreaking integrative and comprehensive approach to masterplanning, illustrated by examples that Ken Yeang – the original pioneer of the ‘green skyscraper’ – has designed in a highly visually driven format, the book examines over 20 of his masterplans from around the world, including those in the Netherlands, china, India, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore and North America.