Download or read book Southeast False Creek Design Charette Exploring High Density Sustainable Urban Development written by Dianne Perrier and published by Cmhc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southeast False Creek (SEFC) sustainable neighbourhood planning project is an initiative to redevelop approximately 32 hectares (79 acres) of industrial land on the False Creek waterfront, in the downtown of Vancouver, as a residential neighbourhood for between 8,000 and 10,000 people. SEFC is being designed to embody the principles of sustainable development in a manner appropriate to the scale, location, context, opportunities and constraints of the site. This report summarizes the results of a design charrette partially funded by CMHC, in partnership with the City of Vancouver, held in October 1998, to explore the implications of sustainable guidelines and separate policies proposed for the SEFC, particularly about 19 hectares (47 acres) of city-owned land within the 32 hectare study area. A core principle in the planning of the SEFC is that it should be a transferable model of high-density sustainable urban development. This report includes a brief history of the guideline development, the reasons for holding a charrette, a synopsis of CMHC research that was used, a critique of the effectiveness and value of the charrette. The report also includes drawings done at the charrette itself.
Download or read book Brownfields Redevelopment and the Quest for Sustainability written by Christopher de Sousa and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role that brownfields redevelopment is playing and can play in our quest for sustainability, focusing on efforts in the US and Canada. This book looks at how brownfields are used as spaces for developing an array of residential, recreational, and employment-oriented projects that have breathed new life into the urban environment.
Download or read book Southeast False Creek Design Charrette written by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast False Creek is an urban sustainable neighbourhood development initiative. The intent is to create a high-density urban community by redeveloping approximately 32 hectares of polluted industrial waterfront in downtown Vancouver into a residential area. As part of the planning process, the municipality held a design charrette, the primary goal of which was to provide conceptual development options to address a number of issues, including: rainwater, soil contamination, public greens, residences, parking, street design, and waste management. This report summarizes the results of the charrette.
Download or read book Housing Thousands of Women written by Marge Reitsma-Street and published by University of Victoria Faculty of Human and Social Developme. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Compendium de Recherche written by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature Review of Socio economic Trends Affecting Consumers and Housing Markets written by David Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this report is to review & consolidate existing research regarding the impact of socio-economic trends on consumers & the housing market. The review covers such topics as the cost of housing & factors contributing to cost; tenure choice & consumer housing preferences; economic factors such as employment, income, interest rates, inflation, & taxation; demographic factors such as ageing, changes in household composition, immigration, & migration; sustainable development & infrastructure needs; evidence of market failure; consumer environmental awareness; and land use planning (including smart growth and growth management). The scope of the study excludes the need for & availability of affordable housing and the development of financial products & public policy. The report also analyzes socio-economic trends in the following sub-markets in Canada: high- & slow-growth metropolitan centres, small towns, rural communities, and the North. An international perspective on trends & issues is provided for Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The final section suggests potential priorities for future research. The appendix lists research gaps by topic & by sub-market.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eco2 Cities written by Hiroaki Suzuki and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development.
Download or read book Sustainable Urban Landscape written by Patrick M. Condon and published by UBC James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. This book was released on 2002 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Urban Landscapes written by University of British Columbia. James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how to make our new neighbourhoods more sustainable than they are now. By sustainable, we mean the maintenance of the ecological health of our neighbourhoods and the provision of equitable access to affordable housing for our children. We hope that this book will be of interest to everyone; from the public officials and private developers who participate in developing and managing the urban landscape today to the secondary-school students who will shoulder these responsibilities tomorrow. This book includes four different designs for the same 400-acre site in Surrey, British Columbia, each design having been produced by a team of architects and landscape architects, working 'en charrette.'
Download or read book Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design written by Kevin Thwaites and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe? Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design answers this question by providing the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable solutions to the design and management of urban environments. The book calls into question the capability of ‘quick-fix’ development solutions to provide the establishment of fixed communities and suggests a more time-conscious and evolutionary approach. This is the first significant book to draw together a pan-European view on sustainable urban design with a specific focus on social sustainability. It presents an innovative approach that focuses on the tools of urban analysis rather than the interventions themselves. With its practical approach and wide-ranging discussion, this book will appeal to all those involved in producing communities and spaces for sustainable living, from students to academics through to decision makers and professional leaders.
Download or read book Housing As If People Mattered written by Clare Cooper Marcus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults puttering on plant-filled balconies. Signs of life and care for the environment abound. Innumerable social and physical clues communicate to visitors and residents alike a sense of home and neighborhood. This is a place that people are proud of, a place that children will remember in later years with nostalgia and affection, a place that just feels "good." Contrast this with Southside Village. Something does not feel quite right. It is hard to find your way about, to discern which are the fronts and which are the backs of the houses, to determine what is "inside" and what is "outside." Strangers cut across what might be a communal backyard. There are no signs of personalization around doors or on balconies. Few children are around; those who are outside ride their bikes in circles in the parking lot There are few signs of caring; litter, graffiti, and broken light fixtures indicate the opposite. There is no sense of place; it is somewhere to move away from, not somewhere to remember with pride. These are not real locations, but we have all seen places like them. The purpose of this book is to assist in the creation of more places like Green Acres and to aid in the rehabilitation of the many Southside Villages that scar our cities. This book is a collection of guidelines for the site design of low-rise, high-density family housing. It is intended as a reference tool, primarily for housing designers and planners, but also for developers, housing authorities, citizens' groups, and tenants' organizations-anyone involved in planning or rehabilitating housing. It provides guidelines for the layout of buildings, open spaces, community facilities, play areas, walkways, and the myriad components that make up a housing site.
Download or read book Ecopolis written by Paul F. Downton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world’s population now live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single book which draws together theory from the full range of disciplines - from architecture, planning and ecology - which we must come to grips with if we are to design future cities which are genuinely sustainable. Paul Downton’s Ecopolis takes a major step along this path. It highlights the urgent need to understand the role of cities as both agents of change and means of survival, at a time when climate change has finally grabbed world attention, and it provides a framework for designing cities that integrates knowledge - both academic and practical - from a range of relevant disciplines. Identifying key theorists, practitioners, places and philosophies, the book provides a solid theoretical context which introduces the concept of urban fractals, and goes on to present a series of design and planning tools for achieving Sustainable Human Ecological Development (SHED). Combining knowledge from diverse fields to present a synthesis of urban ecology, the book will provide a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners in architecture, construction, planning, geography and the traditional life sciences.
Download or read book Regenerating Urban Land written by Rana Amirtahmasebi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and determination of the initial amount of public sector investment, to implementation and subsequent leveraged private-sector funds. This manual analyzes rates of return on the investments and long-term financial sustainability. Regenerating Urban Land guides local governments to systematically identify the sequence of steps and tasks needed to develop a regeneration policy framework, with the participation of the private sector. The manual also formulates specific policies and instruments for expanding private sector participation; structuring effective administrative and legal frameworks; utilizing land readjustment/assembly methods; determining duration of contracts, adequate phasing, and timeline; and balancing the distribution of risk and sustainability measures.
Download or read book Planning for Sustainability written by Stephen M. Wheeler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable cities and towns might be created, how local ecosystems can be restored, how social inequalities might be reduced, how greenhouse gas emissions might be lowered, and how more sustainable forms of economic development can be brought about. The second edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout, including an improved structure with chapters now organized under three sections: the nature of sustainable planning, issues central to sustainable planning, and scales of sustainable planning. New material includes greater discussion of climate change, urban food systems, the relationships between public health and the urban environment, and international development. Building on past schools of planning theory, Planning for Sustainability lays out a sustainability planning framework that pays special attention to the rapidly evolving institutions and power structures of a globalizing world. By considering in turn each scale of planning—international, national, regional, municipal, neighborhood, and site and building—the book illustrates how sustainability initiatives at different levels can interrelate. Only by weaving together planning initiatives and institutions at different scales, and by integrating efforts across disciplines, can we move towards long-term human and ecological well-being.
Download or read book Cities of the Future written by Vladimir Novotny and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. With urban waters as a focal point, this book will explore the links between urban water quality and hydrology, and the broader concepts of green cities and smart growth. It also addresses legal and social barriers to urban ecological sustainability and proposes practical ways to overcome those barriers. Cities of the Future features chapters containing visionary concepts on how to ensure that cities and their water resources become ecologically sustainable and are able to provide clean water for all beneficial uses. The book links North American and Worldwide experience and approaches. The book is primarily a professional reference aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, including universities, consultants, environmental advocacy groups and legal environmental professionals.
