Sustainability: Architecture & Planning
Sustainable Architecture
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Sustainable architecture refers to the practice of designing buildings which create living environments that work to minimize the human use of resources. This practice is reflected both in a building’s construction materials and methods and in its use of resources, such as in heating, cooling, power, water, and wastewater treatment.
The operating concept is that structures so designed sustain their users by providing healthy environments, improving the quality of life, and avoiding the production of waste, to preserve the long-term survivability of the human species.
Steinfeld, Carol. "Sustainable Architecture." Environmental Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2011, pp. 1593-1596. Gale eBooks,link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX1918701440/GVRL?u=sunybuff_main&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=1ed1cac8.
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A+T Online Library This link opens in a new windowThe digital collection of A+T Architecture Publishers, consisting of monographs and series on design, architecture, and other topics related to the built environment.More InfoFull-TextUB ONLY
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BuildingGreen This link opens in a new windowBuildingGreen helps architects, designers and other sustainability professionals make their projects greener and healthier. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Detail Inspiration This link opens in a new windowDETAIL Inspiration is an online image and reference database for architects in English and German. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowDeep coverage in environmental studies. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) This link opens in a new window
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urbanNext Lexicon This link opens in a new windowBooks and journals from the publisher Actar Publishing focusing on architecture and urban design. Topics include city design, energy and sustainability, technology, territory and mobility, and economics.More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
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Energy Design Resources Design BriefsThese documents provided information about a variety of building system and building science topics.
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Green Home BuildingA wide range of information about sustainable architecture and natural building.
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SEED NetworkSEED® is a principle-based network of individuals and organizations dedicated to building and supporting a culture of civic responsibility and engagement in the built environment and the public realm. By sharing best practices and ideas, these parties create a community of knowledge for professionals and the public based on a set of shared principles.
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U.S. General Services Administration: Design and constructionGSA is responsible for delivering much of the space requirements of federal agencies. GSA provides national leadership, policy direction, and standards in the areas of architecture, engineering, urban development, sustainable design, fine arts, historic preservation, construction services, and project management.
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U.S. Green Building CouncilUSGBC accelerates and scales the transformation of the built environment. The evolution of LEED through LEED v5 sets a new standard for sustainable building, pushes boundaries, and creates efficient and extraordinary spaces.
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U S Department of Energy: Building Data ToolsThe U.S. Department of Energy developed a comprehensive suite of tools for accessing, managing, analyzing and sharing building energy data.
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What is LEED?LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and it takes environmentally-sound building practices into account.
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LEED-certified green buildings are better buildingsLEED is the most widely recognized green building rating system in the world. LEED certification offers a framework for healthy, efficient, and cost-effective green buildings, providing environmental and social benefits. It serves as a globally recognized symbol of sustainability leadership, supported by a committed community of organizations and individuals driving market transformation.
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Guide to the LEED Green Associate V4 Exam
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Call Number: EbookThe Guide to the LEED® Green Associate V4 Exam is a motivating, engaging guide to LEED® design, packed with expert advice from one who has taken - and passed - the exam. Fully updated with the latest advances in sustainable design thought and technology, this book goes beyond traditional study guides to provide full coverage of the exam topics, plus expert tips on preparing and taking the exam itself. The information is organized clearly, with sample questions and flashcards throughout, and the companion website features additional study aids including interactive flashcards and practice exams. Understand the LEED® credentialing process, and the fundamental concepts of sustainable design Study the strategies and technologies of LEED® design, from site selection to atmosphere Discover how best to handle water, energy, and waste during the construction process Gain insight into effective exam prep methods, and know what to expect on test day Test your knowledge with practice exam questions and interactive flashcards on the companion website -
LEED AP BD+C V4 Exam Complete Study Guide (Building Design and Construction)
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Call Number: APL: TH880 .K67 2016The LEED AP BD+C V4 Exam Complete Study Guide aims to provide deep insight into the LEED requirements and the certification process and helps the reader to learn, rather than to memorize, all the essential information for the exam. This book is designed to be the only resource a candidate would need to successfully pass the exam. Even though the scope of the LEED AP BD+C exam includes heavy technical terms and principles that may seem confusing at first, the book enables the reader to fully grasp the information by simply demonstrating it. As a result, the need for further research and struggle on the same topic is avoided, and the candidate will be equipped with solid knowledge to coordinate LEED projects in real life.As LEED v4 is quite different from former versions, the book is entirely written for LEED v4 and is not updated from a previous edition. All of the chapters contain strong guidance on the aspects that require extensive attention while the book points out the finer details to focus on for exam purposes. The case studies throughout the book demonstrate the real-life application of LEED requirements, and the Key Things to Remember sections at the end of each prerequisite/credit point out those elements that may seem not so important but may be encountered as questions on the exam. -
LEED Green Associate Exam Preparation Guide, LEED V4 Edition
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Call Number: APL: TH880 .M39 2015The LEED Green Associate Exam Preparation Guide, LEED v4 Edition is designed to help you pass the LEED Green Associate exam. The exam prep guide captures the critical points you need to know about green building. It also reflects the structure of the exam knowledge and task domains to organize foundational concepts in green building and LEED. The exam prep guide will help you prepare for the exam by emphasizing key terms and providing application learning through practice questions. This resource is intended to be used in conjunction with the exam primary references, including the LEED Core Concepts Guide. Access to a variety of digital resources that enhance learning is also included with this guide. -
Sustainability in Construction: LEED Green Associate Certification Preparation
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Call Number: EbookLearn the latest eco-friendly construction practices and study for the certification exam This comprehensive guide covers green design and building techniques for the construction industry and contains all the tools you need to prep for certification. Sustainability in Construction: LEED Green Associate Certification Preparation targets the many disciplines of environmentally friendly building, including construction, engineering, architecture, business management, real estate, and marketing. The book features complete explanations of sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy, materials, indoor environmental quality, and much more. You will also get an accurate mock-up LEED Green Associate Exam complete with answers. Coverage includes: An overview of green construction practices Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) core concepts United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and LEED fundamentals Location and Transportation (LT) Sustainable Sites (SS) Water Efficiency (WE) Energy and Atmosphere (EA) Materials and Resources (MR) Indoor Environmental Quality (EQ) Innovation (IN) and Regional Priority (RP) LEED Green Associate study materials, including a complete practice exam -
Sustainable Design for Interior Environments Second Edition
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Call Number: APL: TH880 .W56 2011Sustainable Design for Interior Environments, 2nd Edition, builds on the first edition's premise that the interior design profession has a social and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of people and the environment. The text equips professors, students, and practitioners to design sustainable interiors by addressing LEED certification, environmental concerns, ecosystems, ethics, values, worldviews, and the ways in which science and technology can be used to address environmental challenges. Through content, organization, and pedagogical features, the book integrates complex sustainability topics directly into the design process, thereby enabling readers to apply the concepts of sustainability with the same ease as they do the elements and principles of design.
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Sustainable Architecture & Design 2023 - 2024
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Call Number: APL TH880 .H467 2023The first sustainability yearbook for architecture and design worldwide * Innovations and trends in transformation 40 international projects in six categories present the most innovative and forward-looking solutions, whose contribution to building culture development is clearly evident. The focus is on all the relevant themes of transformation development: use of resources, circular processes, biodiversity etc. -
Architecture for Housing : understanding the value of design through 14 case studies
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Call Number: APL: NA7110 .S76 2024New fundamentals for designing future-oriented housing This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial antonyms: the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined, to create a resource for future architectural practice. The book concentrates on design decisions and incorporates rich illustrations and conversations with architects and residents. -
Sustainable Living: 25 international examples
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Call Number: APL: TH4860 .G38 2006The book provides extensive and technically detailed documentation of 25 sustainable residential structures in both high-tech and lowtech domain. There is a considerable variety among the individual projects in terms of their size and the materials used. The examples are chosen from 18 different countries on five continents and come from both rural regions and urban areas.
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LEED Case StudiesHarvard's Office of Sustainability
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Designed for the Future
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Call Number: APL: NK1520 .D4665 2015In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers--covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoam--show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead. -
Ecohouse
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Call Number: APL: TH4860 .R62 2013Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy-efficient design or 'eco-design'. Now in its fourth edition, the bestselling Ecohouse continues to be both a technical guide and an inspiration for thousands of architects, designers and eco-builders all over the world. Ecohouse provides design information about the latest low-impact materials and technologies, showcasing the newest and best 'green' solutions. -
Ecohouse 2: a design guide
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Call Number: APL: TH4812 .R633 2003Ecohouse 2 tells you how to design low energy, environmentally friendly buildings. It provides the foundations for building design in a warming world, and shows how to take the first step towards the zero-carbon emission buildings of tomorrow. Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case-study Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy efficient design or 'eco design'. -
Elements of Sustainable Architecture
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Call Number: APL: NA2542.36 .U73 2020For sustainable architecture to become a reality, the way we design buildings needs to change. Many architects are concerned that sustainable technologies may interfere with a building's aesthetic appearance, and so these are often 'added on' once the design process is complete. Elements of Sustainable Architecture solves this dilemma by helping students to develop the design skills they need to create sustainable buildings - ensuring that ecological considerations are applied throughout the design process. -
The Green Studio Handbook
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Call Number: APL: TH880 .K87 2018The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents practical guidelines for the application of green strategies during the schematic design of buildings. Students and professionals can quickly get up to speed on system viability and sizing. Each of forty-three environmental strategies includes a brief description of principles and concepts, step-by-step guidance for integrating the strategy during the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary sizing, key issues to consider when implementing the strategy, and pointers to further resources. -
Life-Cycle Cost Models for Green Buildings
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Call Number: APL: TH880 .I45 2021Life-Cycle Cost Models for Green Buildings: With Optimal Green Star Credits illustrates the tools and methods for developing a life-cycle cost model that incorporates developer constraints while maximizing the number of credit points achieved. The book identifies the interdependencies among various credits in the Green Star environmental rating system. Afterwards, life-cycle cost is calculated by considering six main central business districts (CBDs) of Australia. The net present value (NPV) technique is used to calculate life-cycle costs. Further, a sensitivity analysis is also carried out for selected credits to identify the changes to life-cycle cost to the changes in discount rate.Once all the life-cycle cost data is calculated, this book illustrates the development of the proposed model using a Java application which allows users to evaluate each key criterion of green buildings separately. The book is designed to provide ample knowledge of the various options available to get green building certification and the further implications in-terms of life-cycle.
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Against the Grain
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Call Number: APL: NA4110 .R53 2024A collection of inspiring homes for design enthusiasts that puts renewable "mass timber" front and center as a unique, and beautiful, solution to the challenges of climate change. While headlines are focusing on mass timber for commercial "plyscrapers," here are creative, stylish solutions for smaller residential projects that retain the material's carbon-capturing and strength benefits. By focusing on a few handpicked examples of single- and multifamily projects through an architectural and cultural lens, the author adds a vital dimension to the story of timber that's stronger than steel--a story that's still in the early stages of being written by architects and builders but will soon be the leading edge of design and construction. -
Art of Earth Architecture
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Call Number: APL: TH1421 .D48 2020For almost ten thousand years, unbaked earth has been used to build remarkable structures, from simple dwellings to palaces, temples, and fortresses both grand and durable. Jean Dethier spent fifty years researching this landmark global survey, which spans five continents and 250 sites. The Art of Earth Architecture demonstrates the wide-ranging applications and sustainability of this building material, while presenting a manifesto for its ecological significance. This definitive reference features many UNESCO World Heritage sites and contains essays on the historical, technical, and cultural aspects of raw-earth construction from twenty experts in the field, as well as hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and architectural drawings. -
Building with Bamboo
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Call Number: APL: NA4145.B35 M56 2023Traditionally a building material of the warmer climate zones, bamboo is becoming increasingly popular amongst architects in the northern hemisphere; bamboo has several advantages - it is very stable, of low weight, and highly elastic, in addition to being readily available as well as renewable. The applications of bamboo in architecture have diversified considerably, so that today, even structures with large spans - such as bridges - are built with this material. -
Engineering Nature
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Call Number: APL: NA4110 .S7713 2021Thanks to high-performance composite structures made of wood and steel or concrete, wooden buildings are now being erected far beyond the high-rise boundaries. An end to the increase in altitude is hardly in sight. Wooden constructions are also on the uptrend in residential and office construction, sports halls, industrial buildings and bridges. They are the epitome of sustainable building and, thanks to new prefabrication processes, are also competitive in terms of construction costs. The book shows the current development of structural planning with wood on the basis of around 20 outstanding engineering structures. -
Holzbauten S, M, l / Timber Buildings S, M, L
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Call Number: APL: NA4110 .H65 2022The architectural, constructive and climate-friendly potential of the building material timber is presented by means of 30 constructions of various sizes and usages. The spectrum encompasses a small mountain hut, residential or school buildings, large office buildings and institutions for culture and leisure. The respective building method – modular, framing or hybrid construction – is presented by means of plans and design drawings. -
Parametric Experiments in Architecture
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Call Number: APL: TH4818.B3 D54 2023This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in the building industry. It systematically demonstrates bamboo's utility in terms of its properties, describing the material properties of typical industrial bamboo products, and discussing their performance evaluation and optimization as building components and in the creation of building envelopes. The book presents the recent developments regarding the innovative ways to design and represent architecture through parametric survey tools, and describes the experimental geometrical-generative design process of a connection joint for free-form lightweight structures employing beams made of bamboo culms. It examines algorithmic-generative design themes, through processes of optimization, analysis, and geometrical-spatial verification, employing the potential of digital form-finding design and digital manufacturing techniques to validate the defined technological solution. -
Sustainable Compromises
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Call Number: EbookLiving simply isn't always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise--until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years later, he decided to try again. This time, with an idealism tempered by experience and practical considerations, Boye and his wife constructed an off-the-grid, energy-efficient, straw bale house in Vermont.
Passive Design
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What is Passive building design or passive houses?
Passive design can be seen as a distinct subset of green design. It refers to maximizing the use of natural sources for heating and cooling a building, as well as improving ventilation and lighting. This is achieved by leveraging natural sunlight, cool night air, and pressure differences in order to create a pleasant interior environment. Considerations of passive design include appropriate location and orientation for a building, shading, materials selection and insulation, as well as carefully studied positioning of various openings to allow for maximum penetration of sunlight and optimal ventilation. This kind of design is called passive because it does not involve the use of any active external means, such as mechanical ventilation or electric lights to achieve its goals.
Lewotsky, Kristin, and Stephen K. Lewotsky. "Building Design/Architecture." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, edited by Katherine H. Nemeh and Jacqueline L. Longe, 6th ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2021, pp. 716-723. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8124400401/GVRL?u=sunybuff_main&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=ae20b374.
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A+T Online Library This link opens in a new windowThe digital collection of A+T Architecture Publishers, consisting of monographs and series on design, architecture, and other topics related to the built environment.More InfoFull-TextUB ONLY
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowArchitecture-related research. More InfoPartial Full-TextUB ONLY
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BuildingGreen This link opens in a new windowBuildingGreen helps architects, designers and other sustainability professionals make their projects greener and healthier. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Detail Inspiration This link opens in a new windowDETAIL Inspiration is an online image and reference database for architects in English and German. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering This link opens in a new windowFull-text of a thousand science and engineering handbooks with a focus on books containing numeric data. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
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Circadian RhythmsCircadian rhythms include some of the physical, mental, and behavioral changes an organism experiences over a 24-hour cycle. Light and dark have the biggest influence on circadian rhythms, but food intake, stress, physical activity, social environment, and temperature also affect them
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The Passive House Institute (PHI)The Passive House Institute (PHI) is an independent research institute that has played an especially crucial role in the development of the Passive House concept - the only internationally recognised, performance-based energy standard in construction
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PhiusPhius is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to decarbonizing the built environment by making high-performance passive building the mainstream market standard. We train and certify professionals, maintain and update the Phius climate-specific passive building standard, certify and quality assure passive buildings, certify high-performance building products and conduct research to advance high-performance building.
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WaterSense Labeled HomesWaterSense, a voluntary partnership program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is both a label for water-efficient products and a resource for helping you save water.
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Heating, Cooling, Lighting
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Call Number: APL: TH7222 .L33 2014Sustainable environmental control through building design Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the industry standard text on environmental control systems with the emphasis on sustainable design. By detailing the many factors that contribute to the comfort in a building, this book helps architects minimize mechanical systems and energy usage over the life of the building by siting, building design, and landscaping to maximize natural heating, cooling, and lighting. This new fourth edition includes new information on integrated design strategies and designing for the Tropics. Resources include helpful case studies, checklists, diagrams, and a companion website featuring additional cases, an image bank, and instructor materials. Designing buildings that require less energy to heat, cool, and light means allowing the natural energy of the sun and wind to reduce the burden on the mechanical and electrical systems. Basic design decisions regarding size, orientation, and form have a great impact on the sustainability, cost, and comfort of a building. Heating, Cooling, and Lighting provides detailed guidance for each phase of a design project. -
Passive House Design
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Call Number: APL:"Passive House Design" provides architects with the confidence required to deal with the Passive House Standard. It shows where there is significant scope for design and explains design strategies that lead to better passive houses. A selection of international buildings illustrate how design, construction and building technology combine in passive houses. Chapters on building physics, building services engineering and energy balancing round out the planning guidelines. -
Passive House Details
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Call Number: APL: TH4860 .C665 2018Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer, moisture management, performance targets, and climatic zones. Illustrated with more than 375 color images, the book is a visual catalog of construction details, materials, and systems drawn from projects contributed from forty firms. Fourteen in-depth case studies demonstrate the most energy-efficient systems for foundations, walls, floors, roofs, windows, doors, and more. -
The Passivhaus Designer's Manual
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Call Number: APL: TH4860 .H67 2015Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards, Passivhaus provides a robust 'fabric first' approach from which to make the next step. The Passivhaus Designers Manual is the most comprehensive technical guide available to those wishing to design and build Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings. As a technical reference for architects, engineers and construction professionals.
Sustainable Urbanism
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Sustainable urbanism is a framework for interdisciplinary planning and design of contemporary settlements. It explores sustainability and urban design in a rapidly urbanizing world by focusing on the processes that shape the form and function of the built environment in its full complexity--infrastructure, land development, built landscapes, and facilities--that collectively make up metropolitan regions.
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The OECD: Sustainable Urban DevelopmentThe OECD supports evidence-based policymaking that will drive the zero-carbon transition and secure sustainable and resilient cities and regions. We conduct policy analysis and share best practices in order to: i) craft actionable place-based policies; ii) improve coordination across levels of government; iii) amplify subnational governments’ significant, yet often overlooked, role in designing and implementing ambitious environmental policies.
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SEED NetworkSEED® is a principle-based network of individuals and organizations dedicated to building and supporting a culture of civic responsibility and engagement in the built environment and the public realm. By sharing best practices and ideas, these parties create a community of knowledge for professionals and the public based on a set of shared principles.
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Building Sustainable Neighborhoods
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Call Number: APL: HT175 .B84 2008Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) -- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter (Boston, MA) -- Columbus Circle Public Plaza (New York, NY) -- Crossroads Project and Marsupial Bridge (Milwaukee, WI) -- High Point Redevelopment Project (West Seattle, WA) -- -- Los Angeles Design Center (Los Angeles, CA). -
Creating Healthy Neighborhoods
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Call Number: APL: HT166 .F656 2017Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side - physical mental, and social. -
Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods
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Call Number: APL: HT166 .F735 2022This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, the book's fully illustrated chapters provide detailed insights into contemporary strategies that architects, planners and builders are integrating into their thought processes and residential design practices. This book explores new outlooks on neighborhood design, which are propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects. It presents contemporary well-designed and illustrated examples of communities and detailed analysis of topics including the depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. It also explores the increasing costs of material, labor, land and infrastructure, which pose economic challenges; as well as social challenges including the need for walkable communities and the increase in live-work environments. -
Shaping Neighbourhoods: for local health and global sustainability
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Call Number: APL: HT166 .B38653 2021Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people's health and global sustainability. This new edition retains the combination of radicalism, evidence-based advice and pragmatism that made earlier editions so popular. This updated edition strengthens guidance in relation to climate change and biodiversity, tackling crises of population health that are pushing up health-care budgets, but have elements of their origins in poor place spatial planning - such as isolation, lack of everyday physical activity, and respiratory problems. It is underpinned by new research into how people use their localities, and the best way to achieve inclusive, healthy, low-carbon settlements.
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Building Cities to LAST
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Call Number: EbookBuilding Cities to LAST presents the myriad issues of sustainable urbanism in a clear and concise system, and supports holistic thinking about sustainable development in urban environments by providing four broad measures of urban sustainability that differ radically from other, less long-lived patterns: these are Lifecycle, Aesthetics, Scale, and Technology (LAST). This framework for understanding the relationship between these four measures and the essential types of infrastructure--grouped according to the basic human needs of Food, Shelter, Mobility, and Water--is laid out in a simple and easy-to-understand format. These broad measures and infrastructures address the city as a whole and as a recognizable pattern of human activity and, in turn, increase the ability of cities--and the human race--to LAST. This book will find wide readership particularly among students and young practitioners in architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture. -
Designing Sustainable Factories
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Call Number: APL: TH4511 .M37 2022Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies - especially small and medium enterprises - from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape. As a result, factories significantly impact the quality of our living environment, in terms of physical effects on the ecosystem, perceptual interferences with the surroundings, and disturbances on local communities. At both the design and maintenance stages, a set of appropriate tools can assist businesses in becoming more aware of their impacts and identifying possible mitigation strategies. The book presents an assessment tool and a library of inspiring design tactics for factories, with examples of the benefits and synergies for the environment, the scenery, the community, and the company itself. -
Green Cities
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Call Number: EbookVia 150 signed articles, Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide provides an overview of the key concepts that urban planners, policy makers, architects, engineers, and developers use to understand the sustainability dimensions of the urban environment. It identifies cities that have taken steps to become greener and discusses the strategies they have used; it also reviews broad concepts associated with green cities. Cities face enormous environmental challenges, and the entries in this volume, from case studies of greener cities to discussions of green urban design, infrastructure, and processes, can help us transform our cities into healthier, sustainable communities in which a growing urban population can thrive. Vivid photographs, searchable hyperlinks, numerous cross references, an extensive resource guide, and a clear, accessible writing style make the Green Society volumes ideal for classroom use as well as for research. -
Performance metrics for sustainable cities
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Call Number: Ebook"Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities provides an overview of measurement systems and tools to enable communities to self-assess and benchmark their progress along a continuum of smart, intelligent, and sustainable development. It begins by explaining the importance of measurement and evaluation for cities and smaller communities, as well as future factors that will need to be considered and embedded into planning processes. -
Sustainable Urbanism
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Call Number: APL: HT241 .F37 2008Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods.
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Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development
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Call Number: APL: NA2542.36 .R66 2021In this book, the author tests a regenerative-adaptive pattern language theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic, integrated design and planning method for sustainable development that incorporates the principles of regenerative design, as well as an adaptive pattern language that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape. The book examines an integral approach to contemporary theories of planning and design that explores the human-nature relationship patterns in social and spatial interconnections, between people and their natural environments. The interconnectedness of human and natural systems is used to scaffold possible solutions to address key environmental and sustainability issues that specifically address the need for patterns of behaviour that acknowledge the duality of 'man and nature'. -
Projective Ecologies
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Call Number: APL: SB472.45 .P76 2020Projective Ecologies takes stock of the diversity of contemporary ecological research and theory--embracing Felix Guattari's broader definition of ecology as at once environmental, social, and existential--and speculates on potential paths forward for design practices. Where are ecological thinking and theory now? What do current trajectories of research suggest for future practice? How can advances in ecological research and modeling, in social theory, and in digital visualization inform, with greater rigor, more robust design thinking and practice? How does all of this point to potential paths forward in an age of climate change and the need for adaptation and mitigation? -
Capitalism and the Environment
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Call Number: APL: HD75.6 .H78 2021Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit socialism, given up for dead only 30 years ago. In Capitalism and the Environment, Shi-Ling Hsu argues that such an impulse, if enacted, will ultimately harm the environment. Hsu argues that inequality and environmental calamities are political failures - the result of bad decision-making - and not a symptom of capitalism. Like socialism, capitalism is composed of political choices. This book proposes that we make a different set of choices to better harness the transformative power of capitalism, which will allow us to reverse course and save the environment.
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Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle ProfessionalsAPBP is a community of practitioners working to create more walkable, bikeable places.
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Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyWe organize our work around three impact areas: land and water; land and fiscal systems; and land and communities.
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APA: American Planning Association: Climate Change ResourcesPlanners are essential leaders in addressing the challenge of climate change and resiliency. Planning is the only profession working at the intersection of transportation, development, and land use — the sectors most critical to climate mitigation and adaptation.
International Professional Associations
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Architects/Designers/Planners for Social ResponsibilityArchitects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities.
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Congress for New UrbanismGreat walkable, urban places—buildings, blocks, and neighborhoods—in small towns or big cities, are powerful economic and social engines, improving community health and resilience while promoting sustainability and equity.
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IFLA: International Federation of Landscape ArchitectsIFLA officially represents the world body of landscape architects through its member associations and regions and in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, such as the UN, UNESCO, UIA, etc. We are a not-for-profit, non-political, non-governmental organisation.
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International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC)The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) is a global organization that brings together researchers, practitioners, and experts interested in studying and addressing urban climate issues.
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International Society of City and Regional PlannersOur mission is to mobilise professional urban and regional planners to co-implement the vision enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.