Sustainable Place: A Place of Sustainable DevelopmentISBN: 978-0-470-84740-4
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228 pages
June 2003
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Introduction.
CHAPTER ONE: CURRENT BACKGROUND
Dialectical Process - Vehicle of Change - Local Agenda 21 - Energy
and Environment as a Driver for Change - Conclusion.
CHAPTER TWO: PROBLEMS AND RESOLUTIONS
Kyoto Climate Treaty and Bonn Agreement - Initiatives Toward Energy
Efficiency - The Ecological Tax Reform (E.T.R) - Unequal
Distribution of Wealth and Social Inequality - Environmental
Assessment - Globalisation - Biodiversity - Urban Megalopolis - The
City - Conclusion.
CHAPTER THREE: FOUR PREMISES
Interconnectedness - Limits to Growth - Energy-Interaction of
Architecture and the Environment - An Environmental Aesthetic
- Conclusion.
CHAPTER FOUR: A FRAMEWORK OF ASSESSMENT.
Master Plan - Indicators - Interconnectedness - Methodology - The
Assessment and its Use - The Application of the Assessment - The
Case Studies.
CHAPTER FIVE: CASE STUDY: SAN GIMIGNANO, ITALY.
Introduction - Stage 1 Observational Studies - Stage 2
Indicator Assesments - Stage 3 Capability Assessment - Stage 4
Determining.
CHAPTER SIX: CASE STUDY: LUDLOW, UK.
Introduction - Stage ;1 Observational Studies - Stage 2
Indicator Assessments - Stage 3 Capability Assessment - Stage 4
Determining.
CHAPTER SEVEN: IN SEARCE OF AN AESTHETIC.
Twentieth Century Background to Architecture - Twentieth Century
Background to Landscape - Environmental Traditions - Leon Battista
Alberti - Jay Appleton - Steven Bourassa and Roger Scruton.
CHAPTER EIGHT: COMING
THROUGH.
Millennium Consortium, Redevelopment of the Fort Area of Colombo,
Sri Lanka - Master Plan, Canon's Marsh, Bristol Harbourside, UK.
Edward Cullinan Achitects - Coffee Creek Center, Chesterton,
Indiana, USA. William McDonough and Partners.
Conclusion.
References.
Acknowledgements.