Sustainable Design Ecology, Architecture, and Planning,9780471709534

Sustainable Design Ecology, Architecture, and Planning

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780471709534
ISBN10: 0471709530
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-05-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

Written by an architect who is an expert in sustainable design and is a former chair of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE), this book will be a primer on green and sustainable design. It will define issues of sustainable design, illustrate conceptual ideas and case studies, and provide an information base for continued learning for architects.

Author Biography

Daniel E. Williams, FAIA, a Seattle-based architect and urban planner, is a nationally recognized expert in sustainable architecture and planning. Williams was the 2003 chair of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE), and he chaired the AIA Sustainable Task Group in 2006. His projects, which range from residences to regional plans, connect ecology, economic development, transportation, agriculture, education, and natural resource protection.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Foreword
FAIA
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Ecological Model
Ecology
Ecology as a Model
Waste Debts
The Value of Land
Paradigm Shift
Thinking as a System: Connectivity, Not Fragmentation
Sustainable Design
Where Do We Want to Go?
Design Matters
Why Architects?
Green Design versus Sustainable Design
Why Now?
Approaching Sustainability
Place-Based Energy and Resources
Principles for Designing Sustainably
Where to Start?
Regional Design
Evolving from Nonrenewables
Another Weak Link: The Power Grid
The Regional Design
Water: A Common Denominator
Make No Small Plans
The Regional Design Process
Regional Case Studies
Cache Valley, Utah
Farmington, Minnesota: Building within the Community Watershed
Smart Growth: Southeast Florida Coastal Communities
Sustainable Urban and Community Design
A Matter of Place
Principles for Sustainable Communities
Regional Ecology and Biourbanism
Sustainable Urban and Community Case Studies
Lessons from Belle Glade: Can We Save the Everglades and Sustain Agriculture?
Rio Nuevo Master Plan
Growing the Great River Park
Architectural Design
The Site: Challenges and Opportunities
Site Design and Environmental Analysis
Sustainable Infrastructure
The Skin
Evolving a Sustainable Design Practice
Sustainable Design and Existing Buildings
Sustainable Interior Architecture
The AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Program
1997 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
1998 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
1999 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2000 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2001 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2002 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2003 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2004 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2005 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
2006 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
Afterword
Sustainability Terms
Bibliography
Index
Photo Credits
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