Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With NatureISBN: 978-0-471-77751-9
Hardcover
352 pages
November 2007
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Douglas Farr, an architect and urban designer, is the
founding principal and president of Farr Associates. He has served
as cochair of the Environmental Task Force of the Congress for the
New Urbanism, chair of the AIA Chicago Committee on the
Environment, and chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED
for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) Core Committee.
Farr Associates is a Chicago-based firm focused on sustainable design in architecture and urban design. Founded in 1990, Farr Associates was the first architecture firm in the world to have designed at least two buildings to be certified with a LEED Platinum rating: the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood Technology, also in Chicago. The firm designed its own office in the historic Monadnock Building as a LEED for Commercial Interiors pilot project.
Farr Associates is a Chicago-based firm focused on sustainable design in architecture and urban design. Founded in 1990, Farr Associates was the first architecture firm in the world to have designed at least two buildings to be certified with a LEED Platinum rating: the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood Technology, also in Chicago. The firm designed its own office in the historic Monadnock Building as a LEED for Commercial Interiors pilot project.